Terrence Fine:  

My story. What a heady assignment! The story wizard suggests: When I grew up... Well truthfully when I grew up, I always thought I would be an artist. In grade school I was always hitting my parents up for notebook paper from the school store (Bayview elementary) because I was always sketching in class. Ironically, and as fate would have it, while in high school my older brother Jack Abstein taught me a few chords on the guitar. I was hooked! I loved playing and I discovered that I had a pretty good singing voice. I set aside all ideas of being an artist and set my sights on becoming a singer. First I sang with my brother at whatever venue would have us. Then my older sister and another brother joined us and we were singing on the local television station. I ended up doing this for a living and married my professional singing partner whom I met in St. Augustine, Florida at the The Trade Winds bar on Charlotte Street. Confession time: I got in with a fake I.D.! Our collaboration took us to the West Coast and we lived and performed in San Francisco. My husband and I ended up getting divorced and I continued to perform in and around the Bay Area for many years. One day I decided to hang up my guitar strings and I decided to go back to school. I entered the Academy of Art College in San Francisco to study illustration. It was around this time that I met my second husband Alan, who at the time was an actor and screenwriter. I was visiting my former female bass player who had returned to Los Angeles, her original home. Alan was a good friend of her director husband. Alan and I immediately hit it off and for two years we had a commuter courtship between Los Angeles and San Fr...Expand for more