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A few weeks later Old Chong and my motherconspiredto have me play in a talent show which wouldbe held in the church hall. By then my parents had saved up enough to buy me a secondhand piano, ablack Wurlitzer spinet with a scarred bench. It was the showpiece of our living room.For the talent show I was to play a piece called “Pleading Child,” from Schumann's Scenes fromChildhood. It was a simple, moody piece that sounded more difficult than it was. I was supposed tomemorize the whole thing, playing the repeat parts twice to make the piece sound longer. But Idawdled over it, playing a few bars and then cheating, looking up to see what notes followed. I neverreally listened to what I was playing. I daydreamed about being somewhere else, about being someoneelse.The part I liked to practice best was the fancy curtsy: right foot out, touch the rose on the carpet with apointed foot, sweep to the side, left leg bends, look up, and smile.My parents invited all the couples from the Joy Luck Club17to witness my debut. Auntie Lindo andUncle Tin were there. Waverly and her two older brothers had also come. The first two rows were filledwith children both younger and older than I was. The littlest ones got to go first. They recited simplenursery rhymes, squawked out tunes on miniature violins, twirled hula hoops in pink ballet tutus, andwhen they bowed or curtsied, the audience would sigh in unison, “Awww,” and then clapenthusiastically.When my turn came, I was very confident. I remember my childish excitement. It was as if I knew,without a doubt, that theprodigyside of me really did exist. I had no fear whatsoever, nonervousness. I remember thinking to myself, This is it! This is it! I looked out over the audience, at mymother's blank face, my father's yawn, Auntie Lindo's stiff-lipped smile, Waverly's sulky expression. Ihad on a white dress, layered with sheets of lace, and a pink bow in my Peter Pan haircut. As I satdown, I envisioned people jumping to their feet and Ed Sullivan rushing up to introduce me toeveryone on TV.And I started to play. Everything was so beautiful. I was so caught up in how lovely I looked that at first Ididn’t worry about how I would sound. So it was a surprise to me when I hit the first wrong note and Irealized something didn’t sound quite right. And then I hit another and another and another followedthat. A chill started at the top of my head and began to trickle down. Yet I couldn't stop playing, asthough my hands were bewitched. I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a trainswitching to the right track. I played this strange jumble through two repeats, the sour notes stayingwith me all the way to the end.When I stood up, I discovered my legs were shaking. Maybe I had just been nervous, and the audience,like Old Chong, had seen me go through the right motions and had not heard anything wrong at all. Iswept my right foot out, went down on my knee, looked up and smiled. The room was quiet, except forOld Chong, who was beaming and shouting, “Bravo! Bravo! Well done!” But then I saw my mother's

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