Another of the seated protesters spoke up, the group's one woman, in her early seventies maybe, little curls of a faded blond perm peeking from beneath a knit pink wooly cap.

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How was it that a woman apparently of little musical ability had one day sat at a piano and had begun to play Chopin with ease, and Chopin music that no one had heard before?

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And then, when only one woman was left, she brought over two tree seedlings, little green shoots with just a couple of leaves on them.

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But she had an opportunity to get in a little therapy and exercise, and I remember thinking, She is one fierce, resilient woman.

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