All through high school I always swore to myself I would marry a tenor. I just love tenor lines, they are always so integral to a good choir. I felt it important ('Kay, maybe not necessary) to marry someone who played the piano really well too, or at least who loved music the way I do. I guess I just wanted someone to be able to sing cheesy duets, and maybe share my obsession for Chopin with.
Those few moments after I met John, I knew that would never matter again. My feelings for him far eclipsed hopes for a musical soul mate. I tried a few times to teach him to match pitch, played Rachmaninov for him, even tried to teach him to play the piano. (Just as a sidenote, he can match pitch while singing falsetto... but that's it! Everywhere else on the scale he's about 2-3 notes off. Go figure. It's OK, he knows it's weird.) I'm sure he would learn if it was really important, but it's not.
So life goes on. He stays home while I go to choir. He pretends to understand when I try to talk about music. It's all good. My dreams of being like this cute couple were gone with his hunting rifle.
So sweet, right? John says when we're old and visiting each other at the Mayo clinic, maybe we can play a heart and soul duet in the lobby.
Those few moments after I met John, I knew that would never matter again. My feelings for him far eclipsed hopes for a musical soul mate. I tried a few times to teach him to match pitch, played Rachmaninov for him, even tried to teach him to play the piano. (Just as a sidenote, he can match pitch while singing falsetto... but that's it! Everywhere else on the scale he's about 2-3 notes off. Go figure. It's OK, he knows it's weird.) I'm sure he would learn if it was really important, but it's not.
So life goes on. He stays home while I go to choir. He pretends to understand when I try to talk about music. It's all good. My dreams of being like this cute couple were gone with his hunting rifle.
So sweet, right? John says when we're old and visiting each other at the Mayo clinic, maybe we can play a heart and soul duet in the lobby.
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