
Alix Spiegel | Telling Revelatory Stories
Good Life Project
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How I Survived the Second World War, You Know?
One of my mother's cousins actually survived aushitz by playing piano. I feel like there are many lessons that you could draw from that, like it's useful to have some kind of skill that differentiates you. And so she the way that worked itself out for in her mind, was, my daughter needs to be able to play the mendelssohn violin concerto in a minor absolutely perfectly, and then whatever comes she will survive. So that's how i ended up in such a kind of, rigorous, such a kind of rigorous a discipline so early,. becaus my mother really wanted, wanted me to to be able to survive. That was how she emotionally, she saw
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