“It didn’t,” she said.

“It just changed how you reach it.” Three months later, the Bright Path Foundation held a concert, and Grace agreed to perform a duet with Lily.

The auditorium was full — no celebrities, no velvet ropes, no red carpet, only families and teachers and students and workers and volunteers and dozens of people with visual impairments.

When Grace sat at the piano and placed her hands on the keys and began to play, it was not technically perfect.

It was better than perfect.