Alison Fensterstock

“No doubt I disappointed my mother by returning home again from Saint Andrews without having managed to become engaged to a man with a Scottish castle. But a few years later, working at a bookstore in Boston, I met a fellow bookseller, an expatriate, Scott, who'd been at Saint Andrews the same time as I was. No, we'd never met each other. We had, in fact, been in the same spaces many times, at concerts, at student dances, and so on. But neither of us had ever noticed the other. And now we are married… The music is the same but never in the same place in that same moment. The familiar song accompanying me as I kept on moving. How he and I missed each other the first time around, on every possible. Occasion and then managed to find each other after all. Kelly Link, Turning the Tables, contributor.”
― Alison Fensterstock, How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music