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Strings of Resilience: A Life Shaped by Music, History and Purpose

In a quiet neighborhood in North Seattle, Mari Horita picked up a violin at age six not because she loved it, but because her best friend did. The…

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Sandee Hamatani

on 05/05/2026

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