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I have one resident
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that barely opens her eyes
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she didn't respond
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as much as I tried
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on her for two years
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No matter what I tried
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massage wouldn't work
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nothing worked
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for when we got
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introduced to the ipods
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and the families
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told me the things that she liked
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it was amazing
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once we put the ipod on her
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she started shaking her feet
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she started moving her head
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her son
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was just amazed
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okay can we stop
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because now i'm
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getting an aura
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i'm seeing her all over again
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Hi papa
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Hi papa
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huh
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How you doing?
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I'm alright, i'm fine.
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Who am I?
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I don't know
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Mumbles Wait a minute, I don't know, I don't know.
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okay it's Sherrie
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How long has he been in the nursing home?
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Ah approximately
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ten years
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he's having seizures
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and my mother couldn't
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handle him at home
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of course it affected me
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greatly
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because he was always
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you know
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fun-loving
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singing you know
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every occasion he would come out with a song
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no matter where he was
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I remember
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as a child
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he used to walk
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us down the street
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me and my brother
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we'd stop and do
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singin' in the rain
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he would have us
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jumping
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and swinging around poles
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he was you know he was good
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he was always into music
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you know
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always loved singing
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dancing
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his name is Henry Drea
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ahuh
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and i'm looking more or less for
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religious music for him
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okay
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because he enjoys
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music and he
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always holding the bible
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so i'd rather have that for him
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We first see Henry
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inert
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maybe depressed
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unresponsive
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and almost unalive
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Henry
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yeah
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Henry, yes doll
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I found your music
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you want your music now?
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Not really, oh maybe
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lets try your music
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and then you tell
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me if it's too loud or not
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then he is given
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an ipod
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containing
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we know his favorite music
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mumbled singing
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and immediately
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he lights up
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his face assumes
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expression
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his eyes open wide
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he
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he starts to
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sing and to rock
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and to move his arms
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and he's being animated
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by the music
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and he used to always sit on the unit
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with his head like this
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he didn't really
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talk so much to people
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and then when I introduced
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the music to him
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this is his reaction ever since
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giggle
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the philosopher Kant once called music
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the quickening art
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and Henry is being quickened
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he is being brought to life
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Yeah
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I'm going to take
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the music just for once second okay
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just to ask you a few questions okay
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I'm going to give it back to you
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ahuh
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okay, the affect of this doesn't stop
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because when the headphones
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are taken off Henry
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normally mute
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and virtually
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unable to answer
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the simpliest
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yes and no questions is quite
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viable
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Henry?
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Yeah.
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Do you like the ipod?
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Do you like the music you're hearing?
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Yes.
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Tell me about your music.
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Well I don't
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know
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I don't have none I mean.
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Do you like music?
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Yep, I'm crazy about music.
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And you played beautiful music, beautiful
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sound.
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Did you play music
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did you like music
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when you were young?
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Yes, yes.
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I went to big dances and things.
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What was your favorite
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music when you were young?
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Well I guess
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Cab Calloway
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was my number one fan guy
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I like
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mumbling
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What was your favorite Cab Calloway song?
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Oh,
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Singing: I'll be home for Christmas
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You can count plan on me
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with plenty of snow
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mistletoe
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presents
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wrapped round your tree
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ouh
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so in some sense
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Henry is restored
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to himself
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he is
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remembered
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who he is
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and he's reaquired
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his identity
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for a while through
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the power of music
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what does music do to you?
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It gives me the feeling
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of love
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romance
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I figure right now
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the world needs
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come into music
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singing you've got
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beautiful music here
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beautiful
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oh lovely
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and I feel the band of
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love of dreams
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the lord came
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to me and made me holy
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i'm a holy man
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so
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he gave me these sounds
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Singing: Rosalee won't you love me, Rosalee won't you
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be sweet and kind.
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Through this beautiful new technology
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you can have all
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of the music
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which is significant
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for you
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in something as
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big as a matchbox
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or whatever
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and I think
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this may be very
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very important in
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helping to animate
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to organize
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and bring
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a sense
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of identity
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back to people who are out of it
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otherwise
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music will bring you back into it.
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Into their own person hood
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memories
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their own
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autobiographies
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background music
