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Children can hold hope for a long time without it burning their hands, far longer than adults can, which is what allows them to complete the act of up in a world where people lie, where people let you down all the time, a world where love isn't always enough, a world where, sometimes, you have to give up on someone else in order to save yourself.

Part of music was for sharing—the part people can experience together—a live performance, a mixtape, the kinship you feel when you make music with other people. But part of it was private—the love you feel for it. The surging swell of emotion that you can't name when it plays, the way it is almost religious, wordlessly so, in its power.