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My Tenor Story: Part Three

posted on September 7, 2016 by Janet Givens
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  What did I write at the beginning of August?  I started with Weltschmerz, that state of sadness and depression when the world is not as we think it should be. Its literal translation from the German is “world pain.” I wrote about how tenaciously we can cling to a belief — faulty, misguided, or just… more »
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