The truth is in the music

Previously

…She looked at her parents, their faces etched with the stories they had finally shared, and saw not just her parents, but the continuation of a lineage, a tapestry of lives bound together by love, by loss, and by the enduring power of a song. The truth, she realised, wasn't just in the music; it was in the telling, in the sharing, in the brave act of finally confronting the family's silence. And in that silence, finally broken, Michelle found her own voice, clear and resonant, ready to sing her own song.