Songs from before your memories begin
Weekend Edition Saturday, December 15, 2007 · Dr. Oliver Sacks called her "Mrs. O'C;" She was Irish. She was old (in her 80s). And she had a problem: One night, back in the 1970s while sleeping in her room at the Catholic old people's home in the Bronx, she was awakened by a voice, a female voice singing Irish ballads.
This story gave me the chills. How fantastic! How amazing! How sad!