Viola Wills was an American singer best known for her version of “If You Could Read My Mind” (1980).

The version by Miss Wills came out when I was fifteen. Little did I know the song was by Gordon Lightfoot and its theme was divorce*, although my parents were going through a particularly nasty end of marriage, I just loved the song.

*Powerful cinematic divorce allegories include The Brood (1979) and Possession (1981).