My “niece” (who is my niece in all but blood) got into Interlochen summer music camp, not an easy place to get into. Here’s a picture that we could call portrait of the artist as a young girl:

Note the look of intense concentration. This was taken during a concert. I have pictures of that exact same expression on Sorena from when she was nine. She’s a teenager now.

And I’m even including a little bit of her audition songs, here and here.

I am very proud of her. She was talking so fast on the message she left me, I had to listen to it twice to hear anything other than “IgotinIgotinIgotin!”