Why do we love the songs we heard when we were teenagers? I was driving to work the other day and a Led Zeppelin song came on the radio, and my mood just turned right around, remembering playing that album when getting ready for work. I was staying with my grandparent's for the summer so I could work at the playhouse across the road, owned by their cousin, and my grandmother didn't ever seem to mind me playing whatever music I wanted in the morning, so my few Led Zeppelin records were in heavy rotation. It was a lovely point in time, for me. Not yet on my own, really, still cradled in the bosom of family, but having a job, getting myself out to it every day, made me feel like I had potential. Hope. And hearing the songs from that time makes me feel hopeful, again.
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