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“And everything seemed connected—the street sounds, and Ray’s voice and his piano and my Daddy’s hand and my sister’s silhouette and the sounds and the lights coming from the kitchen. It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this has been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.”