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Story by Elise Haskell | Back to Story List

Well my story is pretty simple. I was named after the composition. I don't remember the first time I ever heard it, but I do remember that my father used to play it for me whenever I asked, and I would ask an awful lot. I think a part of me felt that Beethoven really wrote it for me.