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The Yellow Sea Lioness
By Kelly Ann Guglietti, Dwain Esper AuthorHouse
Copyright © 2014 Kelly Ann Guglietti
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ISBN: 978-1-4969-4974-5
CHAPTER 1
Shortly after the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, near the Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, was born a sea lioness, named Lu-sea. As a young sea pup, Lu-sea loved to sing. She had no inhibitions about doing so. She would dress up and sing scales like an opera singer. "Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do!"
She would belt out show tunes. "High on a hill was a lonely goatherd. Lay-ee-odl, lay-ee-odl, lay hee hoo!"
She sang gospel. "Oh happy day!"....
and vintage pop! "Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain. La de da de de. La de da de da."
But once in music classes at school, much to the disappointment of Mrs. Soul, her music teacher, Lu-sea froze every time it was time to sing. "From the diaphragm, girls," Mrs. Soul would request. "I cannot hear some of you."
Lu-sea's friend Bubbles would gregariously sing behind her piano at pajama parties, "There's no business like show business!" Lu-sea admired her strength.
Lu-sea would melt at Sandy's soprano solo of "Blue" in concert. "Blue- ue-ue-ue...." Sandy would croon.
Lu-sea laughed hysterically when Croaker and Eddy would do their Sha Na Na impression at Mr. Wittestache's summer music camp in June. "Ar, ar, ar, ar, ar, ar, ar! Sha-na-na-na, sha-na-na-na-na!," they would bark as they shook their shoulders.
Then there was the ever-talented Marilu. Marilu sang operettas with so much power; she did not need a microphone. Her voice rang out to all those who could hear for miles. "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle...." flowed hauntingly through the sea-torium.
Marilu had a fun, mischievous side as well. After one physical education class, she jumped up on the locker room benches and led the whole class in singing and dancing to the Macarena. Miss. Marm, her P.E. teacher, was not amused.
But Lu-sea grew to deny her enjoyment of singing because she felt her friends sang so much better than she. At the annual field trip in late July to perform on the K-docks at Pier 39, Lu-sea would just clam up. She was sure the tourists were laughing at her when she dared to sing the Bay Area Sea Lion Anthem, "If You're Going to San Francisco." She felt she had no talent whatsoever.
(Continues...)
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