When I was in Zurich, after returning from the Borciani Competition, as hard as it is for me to believe, my briefcase, which had my oboe inside, was stolen out from under a bench that I was sitting on. I had to leave the next morning for the United States, but amazingly, within four hours of it being stolen, the police left me a message at my hotel that they had found the bag, and it was returned to me with oboe, reeds, papers, etc. all intact.
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