00:00For 60 years, my father played this piano, every single evening, at seven o'clock.
00:06It was the sound of our whole house growing up. Dinner, homework, everything, all of it,
00:12set to his music. The arthritis took that from him last winter, and the house just went quiet.
00:20He'd sit in his chair at seven, looking at the keys he couldn't play. It broke my heart.
00:25And then one night, the cat just hopped up onto the bench and stepped onto the keys.
00:32It wasn't music exactly, just soft little notes. But my father smiled for the first time in weeks.
00:41So now, every evening at seven, right on time, the cat takes his place at the piano.
00:48It isn't quite music, not really, but it's the only music in this house now.
00:53And honestly, Dad wouldn't trade it for the world.
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