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1. I am one of the world's most renowned virtuoso violinists. I am the music, and the music is me. My legend - the Gideon Legend - states that at the ripe age of three, thanks in large part to my Granddad, I was introduced to Paganini's D major concerto; at which time I seized the nearest violin and began to play it. Not well, but I played. Is this story gospel, or is it a grand fiction? Do you know?
2. And now I've lost my music. I've lost it and I need to regain it, or I am lost as well. To that end, Dad, good old Dad who always cared about the music first (just as I did), has sent me to a psychiatrist. A head doctor. A shrink. Only upon arriving I find not the well-respected psychiatrist I was expecting, but his young daughter who seems to have taken over in his place. Taken over, and determined to make the office as morbid as possible. Why on Earth is she wearing all black?
3. More than that, this woman, this Dr. Rose, this psychiatrist and shrink, this supposed doctor of minds - why is she even here? Why not her father, who might actually be able to HELP me?
4. Dr. Rose told me to remember. She said remembering the past will somehow unlock my future and return the music to me, the music that I lost. And so I've remembered. Remembered that I had a sister. A SISTER, a little baby sister, that until now I'd forgotten. And I'd even forgotten what happened to her . . . that the news said she'd been . . .
5. I've had no friends to speak of in my life. It's a magical existence, that of the true musician, but it can be lonely. My only friend was the sound. My only friend is now gone.
. . . but wait. I do have one friend, in a strange and (to me) incomprehensible way. Libby. She's been good to me. Or has she? Is all this her fault? I don't know. She's so American, being from . . . you know where.
6. I went with Libby to the library, and there I dug up the newspaper clippings of twenty years ago. And there I discovered yet another piece of the horrible puzzle my brain has seen fit to hide from me. My sister, the sister I lost, little Sonia . . . she wasn't well. She had . . . God, I can't even bring myself to say it. I can't bear it. But you know what was wrong with her, don't you? Or are you too young to remember, too American to have seen the headlines?
7. And now my mother is lost as well. Of course, in some sense, she's been lost to me for years. She left us when I was a child. Dr. Rose, in her wisdom, thinks that might be the cause of this blockage, this inability to play my music, this blight on my existence. If that's true, all may be lost, now that my mother is dead. Murdered. I can't take this anymore. I need my music back. But I can't retrieve it because that damn piece, that jinx that I can never rid myself of, it's doing this somehow. It's what I tried to play at Wigmore Hall the first night I lost my music. Don't make me say it, you know the name as well as I do.
8. God help me, I've remembered something more. The original story they ran, about what happened to my sister . . . that wasn't the truth. That was as much a fiction as a bestselling novel. I know now what really happened. I know what really happened to Sonia. Oh my God.
9. Now my father is trying to convince me that what I've just remembered about Sonia was wrong. He's trying to say that . . . that . . .
10. Now it all makes sense. I realize what really happened. My father killed my mother so she wouldn't tell me what she knew. My family started tearing itself apart twenty years ago, and it's still in the process today. And the only way to make up for it, in whatever small way I could, was to sell the Guarneri, sell my priceless violin. So I went home to get it. And I found even that final resolution taken from me, as everything in my life has been taken, and madness has claimed me forever, because . . .
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