Her second-hand piano, a creaking upright named Bertha, sat in the corner of her room like a sleeping bear. Maya could play the basics from Grade 1—"Ode to Joy" with one flub, "Long, Long Ago" with two. But her fingers felt like clumsy sausages on the black keys.
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