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Heartstrings: “Tiny Dancer”

Elton John’s 1971 tune plays across a lifetime in variation

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Scott Holleran
Apr 13, 2023
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Which things recur throughout your lifetime? This is the first story in a series about that which recurs throughout mine; in this case, a six-minute, 17-second ballad by Elton John. Like a ghost from the past, the tune appears and re-appears in variation.

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