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> I'm kind of afraid to ask you this. No offense please, but what do you mean
> "your wife left last year". Do you mean your wife passed away or .. ?
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Actually, she came home one evening and said "I'm leaving You and there ist nothing You can do". And I was asking myself "Ok, where is the candid camera?". At that time we were together 11 1/2 years and married for 8 1/2 years. Everything had been fine up to that day. This was a situation where in a film You would say "completely unreal".

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>> Bought myself a more than 100 Year old grand piano and started to take lessons.
>> It's just wonderful. I am exercising mostly at night - an hour, sometimes two or three,
>> candles everywhere. Fabulous instrument.
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> Yes, it's a beautiful instrument. Sounds very nice. But if I'm the one
> who play it, then all people around me will leave immediately <lol>
>

Same with me. When I started, I could not even read notes. Luckily there is no one around to run away.
The cats just love it. They even do come.