“Here was this marvelous young woman, just getting ready to go out into the world who was trying so hard to make me happy – I’m usually the one worried about other people!  I could see she was reaching for ideas and felt bad for her because the weather had ruined her plans for the day.  I honestly was about to give in to the cookie idea when she started asking about my record collection.  It’s really not much of a collection as much as it’s just my favorite records that I’ve held onto, none of them are valuable but that afternoon they were worth their weight in gold.  Charlie had never heard of Ella Fitzgerald and while I know not everyone likes Jazz…how could you not have heard of Ella Fitzgerald?  And I got to be the person who introduced her to Ella and Nina Simone  and I have plans for Thelonious Monk later but we’re taking small steps here, it’s a jump from Ella to Monk.”