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Imagine a fiddler whose music is a first-time experience for a toddler who is learning to walk. When the fiddler begins to play, the child is monumentally transfixed but then breaks into a series of body shudders with arms shaking, and while listeners are impressed with the fiddler’s music, the toddler’s reaction touches the fiddler, who turns to the child and plays with newfound recognition.
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