Yet the symphony had been playing faintly all along, a barely discernible underscore amid the noise of her going, going, long-term-goaling, going, aiming, going, sweating, going, trying, going, failing, going, striving, going, working, going, going, hiding, going, going, moving, going, going, excelling, perfecting, succeeding, winning, compartmentalizing, going, going, going, going, going. But now the call toward life was loud, swelling, and triumphant— like a brass section with one hundred instruments, a musical theater ballad from a woman born to sing it, or a rock band full of young and
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