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In An Octopus's Garden
My father and I found a lasting bond in music

 
NYC-April 2008
April 2008

“I’d like to be under the sea in an octopus’s garden in the shade.” I was in the living room with my dad, listening to his original vinyl Beatles record playing the song “Octopus’s Garden.” I was about 6 years old, and that line troubled me. It wasn’t the idea of a person being under the sea and hanging out with an octopus that bothered me. The issue I had was with the shade.

“How can there be shade under the sea?” I asked my dad. “There aren’t shady spots and sunny spots under water!”>>>(MORE)

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