It begins with a snippet of classical music, Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune,” that triggered a memory from 1967 of my junior high school music teacher. He was a charismatic educator, probably in his early 40s, who had great influence on me and probably hundreds of other students. And although I hadn’t thought of him in years, I suddenly wanted to know what became of him. What was his life like? Was he beloved? Did h
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