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Your Aesthetic Origin Story

Art that defines you before you can define yourself

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Amy L Bernstein
Jan 07, 2025
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I can still picture the room where I listened to the song on a friend’s phonograph the first time. And also the second and third time. An enclosed sunroom, of some kind. I sat on the floor. The words and melody, together, pierced my pre-adolescent soul. Strange emotional combinations arose in me: Melancholic, yet satisf…

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