|  Two different 
      faces, the real and the reflection on a cold beam of light , and the beams 
      of wood over her head came from scrapped Men of War down in Woolwich 
      dockyards; every nick and cut in the black, old trees tells of heavy seas 
      and the heat of the tropics. Just behind her is the piano our father 
      practised on , playing Schubert, Chopin and Beethoven sometimes for 
      hours.
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