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It landed in my mailbox like a blast from the past. A small manila envelope with a return address from Brooklyn, New York, and a name I didn\u2019t recognize. Inside was a CD, its title, Parallelograms, <\/em>in loopy script over the image of a young woman with long hair in a miniskirt and boots, walking in a blue-tinted field.<\/p>\n

I flipped the CD box over. Had I really written and sung all those songs? It seemed impossible. These days I might sing to myself, driving to work as a dental hygienist. My 12-string Martin [guitar] was buried deep in a closet, the reel-to-reel masters of those long-ago recording sessions gathering dust somewhere. Linda Perhacs, <\/em>the CD said. That was me all right. Me a million years ago.<\/p>\n

It was 1970, to be exact. I was a dental hygienist working for a Beverly Hills periodontist on Rodeo Drive. The patients were a roster of Hollywood stars\u2014Paul Newman, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda among them\u2014who depended on their perfect smiles for their work.<\/p>\n

My then husband and I lived in a tiny bungalow out in Topanga Canyon. It seemed tinier still when we fought, which was always. To get away, I\u2019d grab my Martin and sit under an old oak, the scent of eucalyptus in the air, a sea breeze rustling the mustard in the fields. Songs would come to me. Lyrics spilled out of me: \u201cIn the soar of the leaves, and needle tufts and form, in the grasses and the reeds, and the spilling over stones\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Not that anyone would mistake me for Joni Mitchell or Joan Baez. Yet the music was healing. I soothed myself with song and felt close to God<\/a>. I need you more than I ever have, Lord.<\/em><\/p>\n

One day, one of our patients, Leonard Rosenman, looked at me while taking his bib off. \u201cLinda, you must have talents besides scaling teeth,\u201d he said. Leonard wrote movie scores. His latest was for Beneath the Planet of the Apes, <\/em>starring Charlton Heston.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve written a couple of songs,\u201d I said. \u201cI\u2019m not really a songwriter or anything. I just like doing it for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d love to hear them,\u201d he said. \u201cCan you get me a tape?\u201d<\/p>\n

That night, I sat in my kitchen and recorded four songs on my cassette player, convinced I\u2019d never actually have the courage to share them with Leonard. Except the next time Leonard was in the office, I gave him the tape. He called me as soon as he got home.<\/p>\n

\u201cLinda, your voice, these songs, they\u2019re incredible. I want you to make an album.\u201d<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t believe him. Was he just being nice? Nice enough to convince Universal Records to sign me to a recording contract. Whenever I could get off work, I\u2019d drive to the studio where some of the best session players in the business\u2014usually a guitarist, drummer and bass player but in one song a full 100-piece orchestra\u2014backed me up. It wasn\u2019t really even a dream come true because I had never dared to dream of something this amazing. It was a kind of miracle.<\/p>\n

It took several months to lay down all the tracks. With each one done, I got the master\u2014the original reel-to-reel tape. Remember, this was the seventies.<\/p>\n

The title track came to me one night while I was driving home from Leonard\u2019s house in Bel Air. I looked up at the sky. Luminous bands of yellow, green and blue formed a perfect parallelogram. Music rumbled inside my head. I have since learned my ability to see vibrant colors whenever I hear certain sounds is a phenomenon called synesthesia. For some it\u2019s a distraction, a nuisance. I think of it as a gift from God.<\/p>\n

I pulled off the next exit and got out a piece of paper. I scribbled a picture of what I\u2019d seen in the sky and jotted down some lyrics: \u201cParallelo-lelogram\u2026 Spiralelo-lelo-gram\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s it,\u201d Leonard said later. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a huge hit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first I saw of the finished LP was in a music executive\u2019s office in Studio City. \u201cWe need to talk about a tour,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want you to go on the road and perform. It\u2019ll help sell the album.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\u201cA tour?\u201d My palms turned sweaty. I couldn\u2019t do that. I\u2019d never done that! It would be a disaster. \u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d I said. \u201cI can\u2019t do a tour. I just can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was that, the end of my career as a recording artist. The record simply disappeared. I never saw it in a single store, never heard any of the songs played on the radio. Parallelograms <\/em>vanished. By then so had my marriage.<\/p>\n

Still, my faith grew stronger. God felt as present as that parallelogram in the sky, as if the reason I\u2019d made the LP was to grow closer to him, which was just fine. More than fine. A kind of miracle. I didn\u2019t pick up the Martin for decades. I continued my career as a dental hygienist, only occasionally wondering \u201cwhat if.\u201d Now, some 30 years later, the record had come back. As a CD in a manila envelope with a note attached. \u201cIf this is the right Linda, I\u2019ve been searching for you,\u201d the note read. \u201cWould you please call me? Michael Piper.\u201d<\/p>\n

I called him. \u201cI can\u2019t believe it\u2019s really you,\u201d Michael\u2019s voice boomed through the phone. \u201cI\u2019m, like, your biggest fan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael had started an independent label selling small-batch CDs of records that were no longer available. He wanted to sell mine. \u201cI came across your album in a used record store. That song \u2018Parallelograms.\u2019 It gives me goose bumps.\u201d<\/p>\n

I told Michael I had the masters and would be glad to lend them to him. We stayed in touch. The CD of Parallelograms <\/em>caught on, more and more people buying it and sharing comments online. The record had a second life\u2014or rather the life that it had never had the first time around. I started writing new songs.<\/p>\n

In 2008, Parallelograms <\/em>was rereleased, this time by Sunbeam Records. One night, my phone rang. It was a DJ from an internet radio station. \u201cLinda,\u201d he said, \u201cwe\u2019re doing a show at a small theater in downtown L.A. We want you to be one of the performers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never really sung for an audience,\u201d I said, that same dread from years before threatening to overwhelm me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis audience will love you.\u201d<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t say no, not when all of this seemed meant to be.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later, I walked onstage to the cheers of nearly 300 people. \u201cI\u2019m sorry if I kept you waiting,\u201d I said. That got a few gentle laughs. I\u2019d been waiting too, for almost 40 years, though I didn\u2019t know it. Almost 40 years! I leaned into the microphone and my fear\u2026it was gone. All I felt was love.<\/p>\n

Since 2012, I\u2019ve recorded two albums, most recently one called I\u2019m a Harmony. <\/em>I wrote my second and third albums as messages of peace<\/a> and love for a world in desperate need of both. A lot of my fans are decades younger than me. I\u2019m amazed and flattered when groups I\u2019ve never heard of, like Wilco and Daft Punk, cover my songs. I still work in a periodontist\u2019s office five days a week, polishing smiles.<\/p>\n

The rest is music. Beautiful, radiant music that had waited for me all these years. A kind of miracle, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

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