There’s a certain kind of magic that happens when family gathers around an old piano. Not the polished kind you see on stage — but the quiet, trembling kind that fills a room with memory and love.

Every February, three sisters return to the same spot — the brick fireplace their father built, the soft yellow lamp that still glows the way it did in their childhood, and the paper hearts their mother used to hang for Valentine’s Day. The garland has faded, the edges of the song sheets are taped and worn, but the tradition lives on.

They call it “their song.”
No one really knows who wrote it. Some say it was their mother, a melody she used to hum while washing dishes. Others believe it was something their father started the night before his final tour — a song he never got to finish.

So each year, they try again.
They sit side by side — DeeDee, Peggy, and Kathy — leaning toward the music stand patched together with tape and hope. Their voices blend softly, trembling in the warm air. It’s not about perfection anymore. It’s about connection — about keeping something alive that time can’t erase.

And just when the harmony fades, when the last note drifts into silence, they always pause — not to mourn, but to listen. Because sometimes, if the room is still enough, they swear they can hear a fourth voice joining in… the one that started it all.

Maybe that’s what family songs are — unfinished prayers that never stop echoing.

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