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She was beginning to make peace with the shape that her vision was
taking. A few weeks after the middle school choir had visited her cen-
ter, she told me of a brief conversation just after the choir had left the
building. As she made her way back to her office in a hallway just off
of the lobby, a frail eighty-year-old woman touched her elbow. “She
said that she needed for me to know what a special place this was for
her,” Lynn remembered, “and how grateful she was to be here.”

    “I thought, in that moment,” she finished, “that my mom was talk-
ing to me.”

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