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Old Chong: Jing-mei’s deaf piano teacher
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This story is narrated by the adult Jing-mei looking back on her childhood piano lessons.
When Jing-mei is nine, Suyuan wants her to be a prodigy like Lindo’s daughter and Shirley Temple. Jing-mei at first agrees, but after repeatedly failing to find her special talent, she quits trying.
A few months later Suyuan notices a young Chinese girl playing piano on The Ed Sullivan Show. Three days afterward she announces that she has made arrangements for Jing-mei to take...
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