When her fingertips grazed the suede, she smiled in relief. She lay on her back and gazed around her room. Mom and Dad had helped her paint it the same sky blue as her room in their old house. This room was much smaller, but the sky blue helped it feel familiar. She’d rehung the famous art posters on one wall—Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer, and The Birth of Venus by Botticelli—and the movie and rock ’n’ roll posters on two other walls. Finally, she’d re-created her Grace Slick wall. A couple of years ago she’d looked up her namesake, Grace Slick, on the Internet. In the 1960s, Slick had been the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane. She’d had a mane of jet-black hair, funky clothes, mesmerizing eyes, and a ringing, forceful voice. In an interview, Slick said when she was young she wanted to be a housewife and just happened to try out one weekend for a rock ’n’ roll band because she thought it would be fun. And so she became hugely but accidentally famous. Her signature song was “White Rabbit,”
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