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    Hallelujah! My Christmas chorus memoir (an animation).

    by Murr Brewster Dec 15, 2023 3 minutes

    I don’t remember trying out for Miss Nina’s baby-blue choir. I was 4. What I do remember is the reaction to my audition. The grown-ups all burst out laughing. They said I “broke the sound barrier.”

    Breaking the sound barrier was a fairly new concept at the time, and people didn’t always use the term correctly. I wasn’t fast. I was loud. “JESUS LOVES ME, THIS I KNOW!” (The Bible told me so. Everyone else, for blocks around, heard it directly from me.)

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