Classical music in the morning is my Dad’s house to me. Coffee, reading the paper or leafing through houseware catalogs. Him in his bathrobe, sitting in his stressless chair, smoking a cigarette. I was an adult by the time I sat around his place in the morning for any length of time. We rarely spent the night at his place when we were kids. He lived nea…
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