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He had made it his: that long line of which we knew only Mama and Daddy. . . . I saw my mother's face again . . . I saw the moonlit road where my father's brother died. And it brought something else back to me, and carried me past it, I saw my little girl again and felt Isabel's tears again, and I felt my own tears begin to rise. (238)
There is a sense of lineage that emerges from Sonny's music. His playing makes the narrator understand the connections passed down from generation to generation, familial ties that are eternally bound.