So it was with really great__5__that I stood in church one recent Sunday，video camera in hand，and __6__my 68­year­old father sweating in his shirt __7__rising to play the piano in his very first recital.

　　My father had longed to play music since childhood，but his family was poor and couldn't __8__lessons.He could have gone on regretting it，__9__too many of us do.But though he was rooted in his past，he wasn't __10__there.When he retired three years ago，he__11__his church music director to take him as a student.

　　For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard，he __12__stared down at his fingers.Has he forgotten the __13__？ I worried，remembering those split seconds__14__ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would __15__.But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the __16__fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines.And I__17__he had been doing what music teachers always stress：__18__the music and pretend the others aren't there.

　　“I'm __19__of him for starting something new at his age，” I said to my son Jeff.

　　“Yeah，and doing it so__20__，” Jeff added.

　　With his first recital，my father taught me more about courage and determination than all the words he used those 30­plus years ago.

　　文章大意：父亲退休后仍然学习钢琴并参加钢琴独奏会的事情给了作者很大的鼓舞。

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