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How Sweet the Sound

After years of silence, I’m finally conquering my fear of singing in public

Eileen Pollack
Human Parts
Published in
17 min readJul 31, 2020

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Vintage style shot of a gramophone.
Photo: Yuri_Arcurs/Getty Images

We sat in a circle at the 92nd Street Y, recounting the traumas that had silenced us.

“My music teacher told me to move my lips but not make a sound,” the first woman said. The rest of us nodded in recognition. Half of the…

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Eileen Pollack
Human Parts

Eileen is the author, most recently, of Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman