Word: pianist
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...limp with emotion and gratitude. A bunch of these true-life uplifters (The Sound of Music, A Man for All Seasons, Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Schindler's List, A Beautiful Mind) have won the Oscar for Best Picture, and many others (My Left Foot, Awakenings, Shine, Erin Brockovich, The Pianist, Seabiscuit) have been nominated. It may be that members of the Motion Picture Academy, on the whole far older than the average movie audience, recall when the inspirational was so popular that it had a nickname: the four-hankie movie. Now the genre is nearly as hard to find...
Milan was my fairy godmother. She taught me independence, resourcefulness, and how to not feel inferior to the person in my section who won Jeopardy at age 15, is a concertizing pianist, and speaks seven languages. So, countless irreplaceable and life-changing experiences later, I decided that I was ready to be a college student again...