Have you ever played your favorite song for someone, only to have them not like it? You just brush it off, of course, and chalk it up to different tastes. But the next time you start your car and the notes drift out of your speakers, you don’t smile. You sit for a moment, and you turn the sound off. You’ve lost something that was so completely yours that you never realized it could be separated from you....

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I had my recs from my teachers, but the most important letter came from my...