[Maigrey]

I bet human interest stories really annoy the democrats, who want everyone to sit at home and play the role of the victim, and whine how she's entitled to compensation from everyone else.

Quoting my aunt, who borrowed it from a lieberal, "You go girl!"

[EggsAckley]

She considered suicide. However, she couldn't do that, and soon afterward she saw Immortal Beloved, the screen biography of the great German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who also lost his hearing.

Willis intends to pursue doctorates in higher education and music theory.

And she plans to continue composing: "It gives me a chance to pursue my imagination for sound."

At risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, I say, "Horse hockey!"

1) If the Beethoven film (which was horribly fantacized, btw) was her "inspiration" (how could she tell if she couldn't hear it?),

2)and she is from Daly City, the legitimate and obvious Music School that would let her in would be San Jose State University, where the American Beethoven Society is housed.

This does not pass the smell test. I hold a Master's in Music at SJSU, specialty, Beethoven Studies, and this insults me. Waaaaayyy too touchy feely.