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You're special, Alex.
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Yeah, right.
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Don't waste it.
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See you next week.
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I was relentless about getting him to form a quartet,
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but he yearned, as they always do, to become a soloist.
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How little they know, or even suspect.
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Then, on the final day of the semester,
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Daniel comes to me and he says,
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"Professor, I've decided to form a quartet
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and I want you to be its cellist."
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I'm thinking, "Is this guy nuts?