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  Thirty-Five Years Later

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  in the market today, i walked down an aisle and glanced over at a middle-aged man and the woman beside him pushing a shopping cart.

  i couldn't place the man but recognized the somewhat younger woman, a former student.

  when the fellow started talking, i realized it was her brother, also a one-time student.

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  Thank you, Tara, for reliving a happy memory for me. I'd all but forgotten about this piece and what it meant to me, a student, and her now deceased father.

  The baby of one family watched her two older sisters, both my students, play the piano. They taught her bits and pieces. While the older girls were delightful, their talents were modest. When baby sister got a little older and her sisters were no longer my students, "Mary" started at the piano and became one of my most gifted students.

  Her rendition of "Ashokan Farewell" had to be heard to be believed.
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  Thirty-Five Years Later

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the market today, i walked down an aisle and glanced over at a middle-aged man and the woman beside him pushing a shopping cart.

  i couldn't place the man but recognized the somewhat younger woman, a former student.

  when the fellow started talking, i realized it was her brother, also a one-time student.

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  Thank you, Wasanelder Once and GrreatTeacher, for your replies. I appreciate the thought behind them.

  One former student told me recently that her parents were not particularly interested in her education but I was. I was just doing my job (which I happen to love), and, somehow, she got the good vibes and went on to a successful life and career. I don't recall anything in particular that I said or did, but apparently she did.

  Thanks, too, Wasa, for the link. I love the work of Franck, especially The Accursed Huntsman and Symphony in D Minor.
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  Thirty-Five Years Later

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  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the market today, i walked down an aisle and glanced over at a middle-aged man and the woman beside him pushing a shopping cart.

  i couldn't place the man but recognized the somewhat younger woman, a former student.

  when the fellow started talking, i realized it was her brother, also a one-time student.

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  compound complex

  Greetings:

  In the market today, I walked down an aisle and glanced over at a middle-aged man and the woman beside him pushing a shopping cart. I couldn't place the man but recognized the somewhat younger woman, a former student. When the fellow started talking, I realized it was her brother, also a one-time student. They both began taking lessons as preteens and stayed with it a couple years.

  For the most part, a teacher never really knows what a student is thinking; does he hate his lessons? Some have told me as much. So, then, 35 years later Mark opens up and says he drove his family crazy practicing his broken chords, up and down the keyboard, up and down . . . He thanked me for teaching him how to read music and told me how much music has impacted his entire life. He is currently passing on that love to his children. Little sister, too, expressed her feelings for the brief time we had together during her childhood. Kids grow up and often do become great adults.

  Mark loves Vivaldi and listens to the maestro daily. He mentioned La Folia as a favorite. Please click on and experience vicariously the happiness I am feeling now.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4qePY2Wdss
  

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  Apostrophe

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  the lyrics to the song, "twinkle, twinkle, little star," are an example of apostrophe (not an apostrophe).

  learn something new every day!.

  twinkle, twinkle, little star, how i wonder what you are.

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  compound complex

  Will fill you in later, Dear! I send out a synopsis of points covered to members unable to attend.
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  Apostrophe

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  the lyrics to the song, "twinkle, twinkle, little star," are an example of apostrophe (not an apostrophe).

  learn something new every day!.

  twinkle, twinkle, little star, how i wonder what you are.

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  compound complex

  Thanks, Tara!

  Triple posts for emphasis.

  This will be covered in tomorrow's Senior Citizens Creative Writing class. I send out a monthly notice of what we're to study; tomorrow it will be Parataxis, Apostrophe, and Janus words. Then, we do a gentle critique of members' writing.

  They love it!
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  Apostrophe

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  the lyrics to the song, "twinkle, twinkle, little star," are an example of apostrophe (not an apostrophe).

  learn something new every day!.

  twinkle, twinkle, little star, how i wonder what you are.

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  compound complex

  In poetry, an apostrophe is a figure of speech in which the poet
  

  addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing. Apostrophes
  

  are found throughout poetry, but they’re less common since the early
  

  20th century. Poets may apostrophize a beloved, the Muse, God, love,
  

  time, or any other entity that can’t respond in reality.
  

  
  

  http://grammarist.com/literature/apostrophe-poetry/
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  Apostrophe

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  the lyrics to the song, "twinkle, twinkle, little star," are an example of apostrophe (not an apostrophe).

  learn something new every day!.

  twinkle, twinkle, little star, how i wonder what you are.

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  compound complex

  In poetry, an apostrophe is a figure of speech in which the poet
  

  addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing. Apostrophes
  

  are found throughout poetry, but they’re less common since the early
  

  20th century. Poets may apostrophize a beloved, the Muse, God, love,
  

  time, or any other entity that can’t respond in reality.
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  Apostrophe

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  2. entertainment

  the lyrics to the song, "twinkle, twinkle, little star," are an example of apostrophe (not an apostrophe).

  learn something new every day!.

  twinkle, twinkle, little star, how i wonder what you are.

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  compound complex

  Poets may apostrophize a beloved, the Muse, God, love, time, or any other entity that can't respond in reality. (trouble posting link: grammarist.com)
  
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  Apostrophe

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  the lyrics to the song, "twinkle, twinkle, little star," are an example of apostrophe (not an apostrophe).

  learn something new every day!.

  twinkle, twinkle, little star, how i wonder what you are.

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  compound complex

  Thanks, everyone, for your enlightening comments. Interesting how the root means turning away from, as I recall (see OC's detailed description).

  Excellent points, all!

  Gratefully,

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  Apostrophe

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  the lyrics to the song, "twinkle, twinkle, little star," are an example of apostrophe (not an apostrophe).

  learn something new every day!.

  twinkle, twinkle, little star, how i wonder what you are.

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  compound complex

  The lyrics to the song, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," are an example of apostrophe (not an apostrophe). Learn something new every day!

  Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
  How I wonder what you are.
  Up above the world so high,
  Like a diamond in the sky.
  
  When the blazing sun is gone,
  When he nothing shines upon,
  Then you show your little light,
  Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
  
  Then the traveler in the dark,
  Thanks you for your tiny spark,
  He could not see which way to go,
  If you did not twinkle so.
  
  In the dark blue sky you keep,
  And often through my curtains peep,
  For you never shut your eye,
  Till the sun is in the sky.
  
  As your bright and tiny spark,
  Lights the traveler in the dark.
  Though I know not what you are,
  Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
  
  Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
  How I wonder what you are.
  Up above the world so high,
  Like a diamond in the sky.
  
  Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
  How I wonder what you are.
  How I wonder what you are.