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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.
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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. "
