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This is for Debby's Dare, week, week 11, to tell about your best teenage memory. The journaling reads, "I was shy in high school -always one of the first to enter each classroom, so that I could sit at the back and hide behind the others. I knew the answers, but panic arose every time I was asked to speak. So it was almost ironic that I became a cheerleader, for it necessitated the creation of a facade shown to everyone who saw me at those sporting events. Music was my real mode of communication. I sang in choir and played clarinet in band and it was the clarinet that gave me my most powerful school memories. It gave me something substantial to hold on to - my security blanket, so to speak. To this day, whenever I take it out of its case, I feel this sense of peace. I had many successes in high school, many medals for all the competitions in which I participated. The medals were a nice external reward, but the real reward was the feeling I got when I became one with the music. There is nothing like it. To play in a musical group and suddenly realize that the conductor could do ANYTHING at that point and we would all react as one entity - that everyone was totally connected, beyond the mechanics of playing the right notes, pushing the right keys, using the right embouchures. There is a feeling of oneness or wholeness, a certain magic, that occurs when everything is just right. It is amazing. Those such moments were my very best memories not only of high school, but of all my years as a student.


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