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I have always liked music.
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Even when I was very young, I liked music.
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I like to listen to it and to make it.
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When I was a little girl, listening to nice music would sometimes make me cry.
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That may seem silly, but the music was so pretty that I cried.
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As I grew older, I started to take piano lessons.
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I was not very good at first, but after a while I got better.
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Also, as I grew older, I started to take violin lessons.
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I did not sound very good at all at first, but I improved when I was a teenager.
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In high school, I made sure I had music classes every year.
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Those were the classes I enjoyed most of all.
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Everyone loved music and we had a lot of fun.
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I started to take private singing lessons while I was in high school too.
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I also sang in the choir, played in a band and acted in plays.
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In high school the plays were all musicals, so I got to sing and dance and enjoy music that way.
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Also, it was so much fun pretending to be other people.
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When I finished high school, I went to university to learn how to be a music teacher.
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That was a lot of fun because every day I was with other people who loved music as much as I do.
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Mostly I played the piano, but I also learned how to play the drums.
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A saxophone, A trombone, a French horn, a clarinet, A flute, which I really was not very good at, and a Viola.
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I took more singing lessons too.
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We did not have plays to sing and act in, but I sang in the university choir some years.
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I played the piano for other students who were learning other instruments.
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One year I played duets with another girl who was also there to play piano.
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She and I made sure we played fast, funny songs, so we really enjoyed ourselves doing it.
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Now I am a music teacher.
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I do not have a lot of students, not as many as I used to have.
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Anyway, I still find it very rewarding.
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I like to see people who start off not knowing very much, if anything, and go on to be very good at creating music.
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I still love listening to music.
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Also, music makes me happy when I am sad.
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It makes me want to dance or sing when I'm already happy.
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Mostly music just makes me glad that I am me and that music is alive in me.