her trademark hat. Somehow -
and she’s still unsure how she did
it - she not only continued per-
forming live, but did a show one
week later, just days after leaving
the hospital.
“I guess when you’re young
and something like that hap-
pens to you there’s a part of you
that’s living in denial as a way of
protecting yourself,” explained
Mas. “For example, to this day, I
don’t remember anything about
it. I remember going to bed and
I remember a knock on the in-
ternal door of the house. It was
a house that people would rent
for the summer and so you had a
lot of yuppy students and such. I
was living in the landlord’s apart-
ment at the time. He and his fa-
ther would come weekends to do
work on the house. Thankfully, he
was there that night and sleeping
on a sofa in the living room. He
heard something - God knows
what he heard - and knocked at
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