Piano Man

Entranced by a neighbor's music, a teenage girl learns what it means to love

At fourteen years old, Deidre is just beginning to notice boys. Her cousin Susan is about to go on her first date, with a drop-dead gorgeous sixteen-year-old, but Deidre doesn't feel ready—that is, until she hears Jeff Elliot play. She's making dinner for her mother when the sound of the piano comes down through the ceiling—a haunting melody of heartbreak and loss that fills her with a joy she never imagined.

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