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But when I did give the record, the girl was so impressed she called over her boyfriend, who would pat me on the head and thank me for being their little mascot and invited me to come along on the date that I'd suggested.

Wow.

But I can tell you this is the power of music.

Whenever I hear that Tremolos record, I ache, baby.

I find it beautiful and painful.

It's happy sad.

It's my favorite kind of music.

It aches, but the fact that there's somebody that aches like you makes you feel like you're not alone, which makes it joyful.

So you get both.

It's the happy sad music.

She had another favorite song called Rhythm of the Rain by the Cascades.

And it was similarly achy and beautiful.

Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain.

And this was Kathy.

This was her shining a flashlight towards a place that really resonated with me.

And I wonder if she created it or if it was always there.

That's a question I don't know the answer to.

The deeply poetic thing was, after she died, we still were getting the records that she'd ordered.

And they were diaries, really, of her and her personality and her life.

They were Beach Boys records.