From my second grade on, there was one event I feared every year: the piano recital(独奏会). A recital __41__I had to practice a boring piece of music and perform before strangers. Each year I __42__ask my father if I could skip the recital “just this once”. And each year he'd shake his head, muttering(嘀咕)__43__about building selfconfidence and working towards a __44__.

　　So it was with really great__45__that I stood in church one recent Sunday, video camera in hand, and __46__my 68yearold father sweating in his shirt __47__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 __48__lessons. He could have gone on regretting it, __49__too many of us do. But though he was rooted in his past, he wasn't __50__there. When he retired three years ago, he __51__ his church music director to take him as a student.

　　For a moment after my father sat down at the keyboard, he __52__stared down at his fingers. Has he forgotten the __53__？ I worried, remembering those split seconds__54__ago when my mind would go blank and my fingers would __55__. But then came the beautiful melody(旋律)，from the __56__fingers that once baited(装饵于) my fishing lines. And I__57__he had been doing what music teachers always stress：__58__the music and pretend the others aren't there.

　　“I'm __59__of him for starting something new at his age，” I said to my son Jeff.

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