“But I’ve been reborn. When one door closes, another opens—all the clichés about rebirth are true. There’s space now for a new me to emerge. It’s not something I would have chosen. I would have happily been a complete unit with my violin for the rest of my life. But when you do recover from any loss—when you heal, when your soul starts to heal from the shock—a new part grows, and that’s where I am now.
