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Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. Source: Hand-corrected proof, belonging to K. Wolicka. Annotations: Contains composer's final revisions, made in pencil on his deathbed, March 1849. Never published. Fate: Destroyed, Warsaw Uprising, 1944.

He showed her the catalog entry.

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She downloaded it.

She recorded the video on her phone in one take. No edits. Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op

The printer had been unplugged for weeks.

"For Kasia—who will know what to do."

Maya stared at the blinking cursor on her screen. In three hours, her scholarship audition video was due. On her music stand sat the original, yellowed sheet music for the Chopin Nocturne in C-sharp minor —her grandmother’s copy, filled with faded pencil marks in a language Maya didn’t speak. It was beautiful, but it was also disintegrating.