Like Sand

Marie Dhalstrom

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Dear Marie,

I do not happen to remember when I first listened to your music. In some way, I love that: I can have something be so good that I cannot remember when it first began or how, but I recognize it is here now and that I cannot imagine it going away. I feel this about your album, but I hear some of that in the music too. Where songs grapple with holding on to something or someone or how…