She was a "tomboy" who was content to do judo and tennis, but hated dolls.

"She was often an enigma, even to ehr parents." "Wondering if his daughter suffered from an excess of mental rather than physical energy..."

wolves ... with which she felt a strong kinship.

She eventually became bored with the piano studies she ws given to play... She returnedd to the Conservatory, but left early, wanting to find her own style

"an instruction to draw chickens on a farm resulted in Helene's scrawled picture of wire mesh." "wolves... decided to create a center for the study...

She was "content to rent whatever piano she could find for ... practice ..."

She had great success... and yet she began to feel again that nagging sense of something missing in her life...

She felt destiny had drawn her there, and that something important awaited her.

"At school in Aix-en-Provence she had no playmates and spent break times hiding behind coats in the corridor."

She jumped at the chance to play in the USA even though she didn't speak English. She accepted an invitation to live in Tallahassee.