Mushiness alert: this post contains expressions of such happiness and gratitude that they may make you puke. But I’m just too happy to give a damn!

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You’ve seen them: pre-pubescent youths graduating with top marks from MIT or Harvard; sitting in the guest’s seat chatting with David Letterman; playing violin with some symphony orchestra; being annoyingly cute and precocious. Well, I met one. She is seven year old Emily Bear, a piano virtuoso in training, with a resume that is outta [...]

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