I found this in Daniel’s files. Apparently he posted it on Facebook (possibly in February 2009) and then removed it a few days later.

1. My name is Daniel Pasquale Frouman. Some folks call me Danielin, Danielito, Pasqualito or Che, which I don’t mind. Other folks call me Danny or Dan, which I do mind. I don’t know why.

2. I learned to play music on my own before the age of 7. I would sit on the street and watch other people play guitar and then imitate the shapes they made with their fingers on my older brother’s guitar.

3. When I was a kid I sold things on the street, I shined shoes, I sang and played guitar for change and sometimes, usually on Sundays, I would go to the market and unload sacks of potatoes from these large trucks. I guess that’s how my stepfather made a living.

4. I have slept in parks, under bridges, on the beach, and on a pool table in a bar.

5. During siesta I would take a break from work when I was a kid and go to this hotel downtown. The maids would let me play the piano in the dinning area. I don’t know what I played or even if it sounded good. I do remember that it was in E minor.

6. I know what it is like to be hungry. Real hungry.

7. Some religious folks took care of me for a while when I was a kid. I had to recite verses and even chapters from the Bible in order to eat. They also gave me a lot of work and responsibilities. I milked cows, shoveled manure, dug ditches, made bread and cheese from scratch, and spent a lot of time in the kitchen.

8. I have been to over 25 countries and I speak 4 languages fluently. For some reason I don’t have much of accent in any language so folks usually don’t think I’m a foreigner. Rather, they think I’m slow.

9. I don’t believe in God although I did when I was a kid. I have read the Bible, the Bravagad Gita, the Koran as well as all the works of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Nietzsche as an adolescent, followed by over 280 books encompassing the main of Latin American and Spanish Literature hoping to find truth. All I found was a piece of paper in the mail with Master of Arts written on it.

10. I remember things about everyone I meet. I’ll meet someone briefly and then run into them 2 years later and remember that they like to play tennis, that they studied psychology and that they have a dog.

11. Sometimes I feel like everything has been said already and that I have already heard everything that everyone says. It’s like I know what they are going to say before they say it.

12. I’m ambidextrous. I taught myself to write with my left hand after I was hit by a drunk driver and couldn’t use my arm for a few years after surgery.

13. I never wanted to go to medical school. I wanted to study Cell Biology and do some kind of crazy research but someone told me that someone like me could never get into medical school so I applied to prove them wrong. I was also told that I couldn’t study chemistry or biology at UT since I didn’t have a strong high school background (since I never went to high school) so I ended up doing graduate work in Chemistry just to prove them wrong. I guess I don’t like it when people tell me that I can’t do something.

14. A week after my older brother past away I ran my first marathon. He always said that he wanted to run a marathon so I ran one for him. I have been running for 15 years now.

15. I got married once. It wasn’t an official marriage. My girlfriend at the time and I went up a mountain and married each other. We bought $15 rings from Walmart, a bottle of rum, a candle and a deck of cards. We said our vows, drank rum and played rummy. So I guess that is why I have never gotten married. I need to get a divorce first. 

16. Teaching is the coolest thing I have ever done. Some of the coolest people I have met were my students.

17. I have terrible allergies in Texas, especially Austin and Dallas. I plan to move to the beach one day.

18. I want to go skydiving, learn to ski and finish an Iron Man in less than 9 hrs.

19. I bought a piano recently. Since then, everything has been great.

20. I have really good friends all over the place. Really good friends.

21. Shawshank Redemption was my all time favorite movie until The Big Lebowski.

22. I have 86 cousins.

23. I don’t like talking about myself and it feels weird to have written over 20 sentences that begin with “I”.

24. I’m obsessed with Brad Mehldau and Keith Jarrett.

25. Sometimes I feel like music is the only effective mean of communication.