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The most prominent memory of music from my childhood comes from a tradition that me and my dad had when I was young. This tradition has influenced my music tastes ever since.  When I was around 4, I loved trains, because what 4 year old doesn't like trains. During some afternoons, I would sit on our enclosed porch and play with my trains. Meanwhile, my dad would also be on the porch throwing darts or sitting by the window reading a book. He would put a CD in the CD player and we would listen to music as we did our respective activities. There was one album that he would always put on, "The Beatles/1962-1965" or the "Red Album". This may seem to be an interesting choice of album to be putting on compared to other music for kids at the time, but this album had my favorite song at the time, "Yellow Submarine". Now I should mention that my dad didn't just put on that album just because I liked one song on it. My dad is a HUGE Beatles fan. We...

This is Sarah Jane, one of my three cats. She is named after a character from the British TV show Doctor Who from its earlier years in the 80s, Sarah Jane Smith.  We got her in October 2014, from a humane society in Effingham. We saw a photo of her as a kitten online and immediately knew we wanted to get her. Unfortunately, we had to wait longer than expected to pick her up, because she had pink eye. This meant however, that we got to meet some of her siblings. Our original plan was to get her and one of her sisters, but two of her sisters ended up attaching themselves to my parents, and we ended up with three.  When we first got her home, Sarah Jane hid immediately. We only saw her a handful of times in the first week. Her sisters warmed up to the new environment much quicker than she did, but she eventually came out from wherever she was hiding. She was still very wary of her surroundings and would jump at the slightest noise. Even now, five years later, she is very s...