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A couple of years ago, I went to a lady's house to buy some vitamins. Upon entering the house, I__1__that there was an electronic keyboard on a stand, leaning__2__the wall. Being a piano music lover and__3__， I asked if the woman played. She nodded and added that she had been__4__lessons—at age 54! I told her that it was very__5__ that she was pursuing her__6__ to play the piano.

Then she asked me the same question.

“I have been playing for 8 years now，” I answered.

“Then you must play a song for me before you leave，” she requested.

I____7____ she was kidding and I simply smiled. At the end of the __8__ of the vitamins, she __9__me of our musical “deal”. She then__10__ me to an old upright piano in the living room and asked me to play a song for her. I thought  __11__and decided to play David Lanz's “Return to the Heart”， since she had so much passion for __12__， and it was my soul­searching song.