It was safer to stay quiet.
My father turned off the tape recorder and my mother said, “Play that part again.”
YESTERDAY BY NANCY GILBERT 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 106
As a teenager I loved the song Yesterday by John Lennon. The slow beat, the deep tones, and the words seemed to sit in my soul.
My father bought a tape recorder to send cassettes instead of letters to our extended fa…