My sister reading her ghost story thrillers to me and my bother Link to my composition, inspired by Maria’s first novel, Dark Plums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNMDJGH5pDo -------------------------- FROM MARIA TO KANSAS CITY BOB INTRODUCTON – “My goodness! I didn’t know anybody else in this college had soul!” I was seated at the piano in the student lounge, around 11 pm, and the person standing behind me was none other than the locally famous Kansas City Bob. Bob was a White blind freshman from Kansas City, a master musician who could play Ray Charles note-for-note, and lead a brilliant, unforgettable performance of Miles Davis’s Seven Steps to Heaven. So for him to listen to me play and say I had ‘soul’ was overwhelming! After high school I spent a year and a half at Washington University, St. Louis, getting up enough ‘A’s to get me as an out-of-state student into UC Berkeley . (This woul
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