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Helena felt she should have been born a boy.
She was a "tomboy" who was content to do judo and tennis, but hated dolls.
Her parents worried about her behavior.
"She was often an enigma, even to ehr parents." "Wondering if his daughter suffered from an excess of mental rather than physical energy..."
She didn't look forward to going to school.
"At school in Aix-en-Provence she had no playmates and spent break times hiding behind coats in the corridor."
She is sensitive to the suffering of animals.
"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 had disagreements with some of her professors at the Paris Conservatory.
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
Musical success didn't always bring fulfilment.
She had great success... and yet she began to feel again that nagging sense of something missing in her life...
Helene believes in fate.
She felt destiny had drawn her there, and that something important awaited her.
She doesn't let fear dominate her approach to lif and feels we have to take risks sometimes.
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.
Helene found it easy to identify with wolves.
wolves ... with which she felt a strong kinship.
She feels the quality of the intrument music is played on isn't so important.
She was "content to rent whatever piano she could find for ... practice ..."
