My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.