Big question. And I was going to find the answer. Of that, I was certain. For all of my other insecurities, when faced with intellectual puzzles, my confidence never wavered. Since early childhood, I’ve, inexplicably, been able to see information differently from other people. Be they words on a page or two musical phrases in an entire score, patterns have simply emerged to me that somehow seem invisible to everyone else. So, as long as facts, not folks, were what had to be solved, the system was simple: I’d begin with what I knew, gather as much information as possible, then sit back and
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