When I was in the second grade my father bought us an upright piano and I guess you could say everything changed. I knew this machine would have something to do with the story that I wrote with my life. And my nine-year-old sister Grace informed me that I did indeed have options: I could play the hymns in church, or I could be what was called a concert pianist which she explained meant that I would play music for silent movies. Well I did love some of those old hymns with names like Softly and Tenderly, Let the Lower Lights be Burning, When the Roll is Called up Yonder, Tis Midnight and on Olive's Brow, but I decided playing music for silent movies was what I really wanted to do with my life. And the silent movies are inside all of us and here we are in this theater with this beautiful old upright piano. And the name of this silent movie is "Etcetera Whatever."

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