Unexpected Redemption by Rachael Keefe

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Written by Rachael Keefe

In middle school I came how with a report card that was all A�s except for a B in music. My father looked at it and said, �What�s the matter? Don�t they give A�s in music?� I suspect that he was trying to be funny, but at 12 or 13 I heard one more affirmation that I was not good enough. I spent most of childhood and adolescence