BY JACLYN TRUSS
“It has taken me nearly two years
to piece my life back together and
to redefine myself, but since closing
this last chapter of my life, many
wonderful things have also happened.”
Q
uivering, piercing and penetrating, the sound
of singing strings flows energetically from a
television set. A young girl listens, mesmerized,
watching as a “stick” pours, sometimes furiously,
sometimes soothingly, over a pear-shaped
instrument. Barely passed her toddlerhood,
Victoria Yeh, not yet knowing the name of the
instrument that was inexplicably calling to her,
had to wait until she saw a picture of a girl playing
the violin in a newspaper before she could declare
to her mother, “I want to play ‘that’!”
Her classical lessons began at the tender age
of four, and from that moment on, Victoria
Yeh could not imagine her life without her
beloved violin. However, in the years to come,
Yeh would find herself facing many things she
never imagined.
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