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The Inflation Perfectionists
The pandemic was my excuse to abandon piano lessons.\xa0\nIt wasn\u2019t that I wouldn\u2019t practice or didn\u2019t enjoy pounding away on the keyboard.\xa0 The problem was that my piano teacher, Tatiana, is a perfectionist.\xa0 She wanted me to get it exactly and precisely right and so I practiced the same piece over and over.\xa0 She would smile as I did my lessons but it was a strained and pathetic smile, as the masterpieces that she had loved from her youth were mangled, tortured and slowly murdered in a most grizzly fashion by yours truly.\xa0 Finally, I couldn\u2019t do it to her anymore and I used the pandemic as a way out.