Great posts people, I too, hope others will share more of themselves in this topic or start a similar one.
As a kid, I hated practicing that piano everyday for hours, even though I loved music, but not the kind in my lessons.
I was an avid reader and read everything I could get hold of. I liked to stay home from school and read but after awhile, I had enough of Ma Perkins, Our Gal Sunday, and all the rest of those early day time radio soaps. I quit skipping school, hustled up a trumpet and got in the sixth grade bandd with it
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