CHAPTER XXVIII
REBIRTH AND DAWN
Friday, almost midday. Violet said goodbye to the German Piano at the same time as saying goodbye to her childhood. And this new phase arrived hand-in-hand with the new piano. It had brought an abundance of energy and hope with it. As dawn does to a new day, as adolescence does to childhood. Musically it was still a tiny baby that needed tuning, but which wanted to be heard and loved.
It was a present from her grandmother Margarida and had arrived to be a new friend, opening the possibility for them to tread new paths in life together. Violet blessed and thanked the German Piano, which had been in their apartment for six years and, at that moment, was leaving. This piano was more than one hundred years old. It was like an old man. It had belonged to her aunt for more than thirty-six years. It would be renovated and, well cared for, would last for at least another forty years.
She kissed the piano and thanked it for existing.
She asked God to protect it and ensure that the new owner would be as happy with it as she had been. Her friend was leaving. But her friend and confidante would always be in her heart and spirit. She had kept its secrets as no one else would. It was the piano of her childhood. While she shed a tear, she looked at the two men pushing her old friend, laid sideways on a wheeled platform, and shouted:
- Wait!
She ran to the door. She hugged the piano again, bid it farewell, like someone saying goodbye to a close friend.
- We’ll meet in our dreams. Until then!
Then, she looked at the place it had always stood in the living room for all that time. The new piano had arrived and was there. It proclaimed its presence and joy.
The future was just beginning in the light of that morning’s end and high point of the day. Many glorious mornings were still to come. Many adventures, too.
She went over to the piano. She kissed it and hugged it as one hugs a baby. As we hug a new friend who will grow with us.
Violet was happy! The pianos, too!
The End
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About the author
Sergio Luiz Pereira, born in São Paulo, Brazil, is associate professor at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo and professor at Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. He completed his Masters in Robotics in England, at Coventry University, in a town near Stratford-upon-Avon, land of William Shakespeare. It was there that he wrote his first book, “O Pomar das Mexericas”. He is also the author of “O Jardim das Baleias”. In 2017 he published the first volume of the trilogy "The Girl of the German Piano - The Seven Moons". In 2018 he published the second volume "The Girl of the German Piano - The Maestro and the Train". Sergio also wrote technical books in the areas of Automation, Energy and Sustainability.
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[2] The Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (literally translated as Yellow Woodpecker Farm ) is the primary setting for the series of children's novels, Sítio do Picapau Amarelo, written by the Brazilian author Monteiro Lobato. The place is described as "a small farm with a pretty cottage, surrounded by trees" and close to several other subsettings: a stream, a virgin forest and a small village, both named the Tucanos. Narizinho ("Little Nose", because she had a turned-up nose) and Emilia (an irreverent rag doll ) Are two of the main characters.
[3] Literally “Catch an alligator”
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