2020 Gumbo Final - Book - Page 160
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“Me, Sydni and Sophia are all theatre majors. We got
really close this one night in particular. We were kind of
just talking about these things that had happened to us
in the past. It was very cathartic. We all just started talking
about it. We realized that we had all been through very
similar things and talking about things that we had never
felt comfortable telling other people before. It was very
nice. All of the sudden, Sophia brings up this song she
had written in high school about that situation we had
been talking about. I listened to it and I was like, “Okay,
wait. Let me put piano to that tomorrow.” We met up at a
practice room in MDA and I put some piano to that song,
we made some harmonies, and that was it. From then on,
we just kept doing it. We call ourselves Group Therapy
because our sessions together had been so cathartic. It
was almost like real group therapy sessions. We would all
take turns talking about things that we felt and it was so
nice. We turned that into music. The things we felt became
songs. We would always meet up in one of those little
practice rooms and sit in one until something happened. It
was really fun.”
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