Once Bitten

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Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

I have this memory from my early childhood, one of those things you forget and then periodically remember. I must have been maybe four or five, and my older sister Beth was doing a piano recital.

The recital was at the piano teacher’s house, and all her current students had little songs to play while all the parents and siblings like me sat around listening. I remember sitting on Digger’s lap while Courtney sat on my mother’s. I think it was also Christmas time, or maybe I’m getting it mixed up with another party. Afterward there were cookies and cider for the kids, wine and cheese for the parents, as people milled around and talked.

What I remember was at one point after the formal recital, while people were milling around and eating, Digger got up to the piano and started to play and sing. I think the song was “Hound Dog” but maybe it was actually a Jerry Lee Lewis tune. My mother made us leave in a hurry after that. “School night” she’d said, but even as a child it’s hard to miss when your parents don’t speak to each other the whole way home.

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