“Wanted: Violin
Can’t pay much
Call … ”
Why did I notice that? I wondered, since I rarely looked at the classified ads. I laid the paper on my lap and closed my eyes, remembering what had during the Great Depression, when my family       to make aliving on our farm. I, too, had wanted a violin, but we didn‘t have the     .
When my older twin sisters began showing an interest in music, Harriet Anne learned to play Grandma’s upright piano,           Suzanne turned to Daddy‘s violin, simple tunes soon became         melodies as the twins played more and more.       in the rhythm of the music, my baby brother danced around while Daddy hummed（哼唱）and Mother whistled. I just          .
When my arms grew          enough, I tried to play Suzanne‘s violin, I loved the beautiful sound drawnacross the strings. Oh, how I wanted one! But I knew it was         the question．
One evening as the twins played in the school orchestra, I closed my eyes tight to capture the picture firmly in my            . “Someday, I‘ll sit up there．” I vowed（发誓）         .
Unfortunately, it was not a        year. At harvest the crops did not bring as much as we had hoped. I, however, couldn‘t           any longer to ask, “Daddy, may I have a violin of my own?”
“Can’t you use Suzanne’s?”
“I’d like to be in the orchestra, too, and we can’t          use the same violin at the same time.”
Daddy’s face looked         . That night, and many following nights, I heard him          God in our family devotions: “… and Lord, Mary Lou wants her      violin．”
One evening we all sat around the table. The twins and I studied. Mother sewed and Daddy wrote a letter to his friend, George Finkle, in Columbus. Mr．Finkle, Daddy said, was a fine violinist．
As he wrote, Daddy read          of his letter out loud to Mother. Weeks later I         he’d written one line he didn‘t read aloud: “Would you watch for a           for my third daughter? I can’t 40 much, but she enjoys music. And we’d like her to have her own instrument.”

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