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“She was his first music student. He tried teaching her to play the guitar, but she was so terrible at it that he stopped within a few weeks. By then, her violent strums had damaged all the strings on Joe’s guitar. To make things worse, she had also clawed into his fretboard with her long, sharp nails, leaving several gashes. ‘Your sister is the worst enemy of my music,’ a miffed Joe had told his friend.”

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