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Gone: A Girl, A Violin, A Life Unstrung by Min Kym

This love story does not have a happy ending

February 19, 2018 by J Leave a Comment

They’re like great trees, these violins. Like those from which they’re made. They live through epochs. Min Kym fell in love for the first time as a young child with a violin. Parental expedience demanded that she play either trumpet or violin as those were the only instructors available in the same time slot as Kym’s older sister’s piano lesson. She was immediately taken with the instrument. In the week between settling on the violin and receiving her first, she cut out a paper violin […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Min Kym, musician

J's CBR10 Review No:6 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir · Tags: Min Kym, musician ·
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