We Knew He Was Special

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It started with Chopsticks, except that he played it perfectly the first time he saw the spinet.

He was eighteen months old at the time.

From there he moved to Für Elise and the Moonlight Sonata. At ten he memorized all of Chopin’s nocturnes and was making a serious go at Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto.

So what if he took to wearing a powdered wig, embroidered waistcoat, silk stockings and silver-buckled shoes? So what if he refused to use electricity?

A boy out of another time, he chose to live that way.

It was his life, brief though it was.

 

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  1. ansumani

    That’s a unique take on the prompt. Interesting child character. But the main theme I get from the story is that children are unique and we need to cherish them for what they are – Well done.

  2. Lynda

    I enjoyed this, though I am sad that the child did not live long. I am imagining that going out the door dressed as he was had a bit to do with his short existence…?

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