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37 WINTER 2025 recited her adventures. She offered him a sketch, but he declined. His wife got jealous easily. She crossed back into Maine, fished for lobster, camped on a beach, and wrote in her diary. "Time doesn't mean much up here, but means plenty in the place I'm going to in a few days," she wrote with a borrowed pencil, fretting over the impatient pencil-lender waiting nearby. "Someday I'll write a book about all this," she wrote. Forty-seven years later, thanks to Scott Napolitano and the college administration, Sigrid's memory will live on in a designated practice room in the Music Building on campus. Music was Sigrid's sanctuary. Nothing else compared. "As long as the music stays, I can face anything," she told herself. "So here I am," she stated in one of her final entries, as she hid in a church choir room in New York City, waiting for someone downstairs to leave so she could play. ■ Andrew Erkkila '07 is adjunct faculty at TCNJ and the author of American Fire. Sergiy Maidukov is a Ukrainian artist based in Kyiv. His works appear in The New Yorker, The Financial Times, and The Guardian, among others. "As long as the music stays, I can face anything. "

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