I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
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I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
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