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<blockquote data-quote="RSteve" data-source="post: 564329" data-attributes="member: 164"><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Privacy is the significant issue, of course. The question becomes, "At this age and older, how much privacy do I need?" For the first six years of my life, my mother, father, brother and I lived in a lower duplex with my maternal grandmother, uncle, and cousin living in the upper. The doors connecting the upper and lower were never closed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">My mother was a classically trained pianist who loved to play the pop music of the day. We had a huge upright piano in an area that divided the dining room from the living room. Directly above the piano, in the ceiling, to the unknowing observer, there was an open heat grate. Directly above the grate in the upper was an identical grate in the floor. We had radiators for heat. The grates were just decorative to disguise the open channel above the piano, so my grandmother could sit in her rocker upstairs and clearly hear my mother play the piano and sometimes the piano and my mother and a bunch of kids singing.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">My mom died in 1954 at age 42. I can still hear the piano in my thoughts.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RSteve, post: 564329, member: 164"] [SIZE=5]Privacy is the significant issue, of course. The question becomes, "At this age and older, how much privacy do I need?" For the first six years of my life, my mother, father, brother and I lived in a lower duplex with my maternal grandmother, uncle, and cousin living in the upper. The doors connecting the upper and lower were never closed. My mother was a classically trained pianist who loved to play the pop music of the day. We had a huge upright piano in an area that divided the dining room from the living room. Directly above the piano, in the ceiling, to the unknowing observer, there was an open heat grate. Directly above the grate in the upper was an identical grate in the floor. We had radiators for heat. The grates were just decorative to disguise the open channel above the piano, so my grandmother could sit in her rocker upstairs and clearly hear my mother play the piano and sometimes the piano and my mother and a bunch of kids singing. My mom died in 1954 at age 42. I can still hear the piano in my thoughts.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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