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George Deukmejian Jr., son of the former governor of California, recalls taking his young daughter to an offbeat music class last year. In a masterful stroke of dealmaking, his wife now brings their child to the class.

Teacher Chanterelle didn’t wear shoes. She had rings on her toes and sang in a pitch a dog couldn’t hear. “The children really respond to it,” she said.
    I looked around the classroom. One of the kids was French kissing himself in a floor-length mirror. Another was lifting the wallet from my coat. “What do you sing for an encore, ‘Helter Skelter?’ ”
    Teacher Chanterelle scowled at me and produced a wooden flute. It looked homemade. She played a couple of notes. I waited for the termites to march out and surrender. “All right, people,” she said. “It’s time to form our sharing circle.” The mothers and their children knew the drill.
    There weren’t any chairs. We sat cross-legged on the rainbow mats with a puppet set before each place. Mine was a gopher. The gopher had a blazer. The blazer was plaid.
    “Hello, Chelsea,” Teacher Chanterelle said to her puppet.
    “Meow,” said the puppet. “Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.”
    I looked at the gopher. “Where the hell is my wife?” I said.
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