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In music, there is a relatively rare ability that somewhere around 1 in 10,000 people possess called perfect pitch. If you are one of these people then you are able to identify or reproduce a musical note without any external reference tone. So if someone calls out a pitch to you then you can accurately sing it. Likewise, if you hear a pitch then you can correctly name it. I absolutely love music, but I am not musically inclined at all, so this ability sounds pretty amazing to me. I’ve always been drawn to the idea of it. A few months ago, I was reading a book by Jodi Picoult called Sing You Home in which the main character is a musician who describes the concept of perfect pitch in life as “the ability to know someone from the inside out, even better maybe than she knows herself.”