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Basso8vb

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4. I was 10 days away from leaving for a 3 week concert tour of China

Reply to Dem4life1970 (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2024, 06:27 PM

Dec 4

with my youth orchestra when the Tiananmen Square massacre broke out.

I watched in horror with tears in my eyes as the tour we had been working towards for more than a year went "poof."

Thank goodness it didn't happen a couple weeks later when we would have been in Beijing.

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I cried just now.... [View all] Dem4life1970 Dec 4 OP

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I was 10 days away from leaving for a 3 week concert tour of China Basso8vb Dec 4 #4

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And yet, Dan Dec 5 #12

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