JUE POST 8

She played the piano with long slender fingers and made audiences weep. I sprained my foot on the pedal, trying to perfect the theme tune to ‘Terms of Endearment’. As I lay on the settee, red, sweaty and in excruciating pain, she made a cold compress with frozen broad beans and found me a walking stick, with a solid silver top. Our parents laughed and thanked god for an end to the torment.