![]() Then, about a week before my novel came out, on Christmas Day, I gave him my first copy. ![]() This was a secret my whole family kept from him for five years. Before I gave a draft to him, I would simply delete his song from the pages, so that he wouldn't know. I didn't tell him that his song would be a part of my novel, even though he read and edited every single draft. At my wedding, he sang a modified version, "Put Your Picture On The Wall." So the song has been with me through all the eras of my life, happy and sad. It's beautiful and sad and filled with love, and he sang it so often throughout my childhood that it really became a part of me. It feels like a good-bye to an era of one's life. It's a song about saying good-bye, particularly to a lover, but the song feels much broader than that, too. From the paperback's additional materials "At the heart of my novel is a song, 'Take Your Picture Off The Wall.' It is a song my father wrote when he was only nineteen years old, shortly after his father died of alcoholism. ![]()
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