Anderson Cooper

And she came in with this book and said, this is the best book I've ever read.

and was effusive about how it spoke to her.

So the book was called The Fairy Doll, and I couldn't go fast enough to find this book.

And I read the book, and it was a thinly veiled account of her own feeling like she was not a part

of most of the lives of the people who judged her because she was bipolar and painfully so at a time when people really didn't have room in their hearts or minds for that kind of situation.

So she had found a book where...

where the salvation for that feeling of being left out and pushed away from crowds and friendship was music.

That was the theme of this book.

There was a sound that delivered this young girl who was ridiculed by all the people around her.

There was a sound that gave her a transcendent feeling.

And I read this and I'm like, well, this fits exactly with the way Kathy was with me.

Her key to salvation was music.

Yeah, yeah.

What was Kathy like?

Kathy was a deep feeling romantic.

And so am I. And so much of what I learned about her underlined the things that made me kind of who I am and the choices that I made.

And so that was an example of an older sister coming through the mists of time, loss, grief,

being expelled from huge parts of her life when she walked the earth, coming back to speak so clearly and so eloquently to me about music.

I remember going through the hallways of these spotless hospitals and doctors' buildings in L.A.

They were searching for a diagnosis on my sister.