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  • It is raining, pouring, the wind beating against the

    house. Pietro and Nunzio are fighting, Contento is

    whining, and Leo flees to the attic. The rain pelts the

    windows, seeping in around the edges, dripping in thin

    streams down the wall. Leo pokes through the dusty

    boxes, an explorer on the verge of an important discovery.

        Leo unearths a box with his father's name, GIORGIO,

    on it. Inside the box, near the top, he finds a small blue

    leather-bound book with yellowing pages containing his

    father's handwriting in small script, brown ink. On the

    title page: The Autobiography of Giorgio, Age of Thirteen.

    Leo flips to the middle, where he reads these words,

    "When I am happy, I tap-dance."

       Tap dance? His father? Leo tries to imagine his

    father so full of happiness that he tap-danced. This is

    not an easy thing to imagine, as Papa does not seem very

    happy lately. Leo closes the book, slips it into his pocket,

    rummages in the box, pushing aside yearbooks and pho-

    tographs and letters. Near the bottom, wrapped in tissue

    paper, he discovers a pair of tap shoes, scuffed, wrinkled,

    and cracked on the sides.

        On the bare wooden floor in the dusty attic, Leo

    taps. Tappety, tap, scuffle, tappety, tap. He slides across

    the floor, whirl, tappety, tap, kick.

                            ***

    Leo is on national television, tapping up a storm. The stu-

    dio audience has risen to its feet, and they are applauding

    wildly. The microphone picks up the host's voice: "Have

    you ever seen anything like it? Have you ever seen so

    much talent in such a young performer?"

       Leo taps like mad, spins, leaps over a chair.

                           ***

    "What is going on up there? Stop that noise! Stop it, you

    hear me?" Papa bolts up the stairs. "Sounds like stam-

    peding buffalo!"

        "It's just me," Leo says. "I was just___"

        "What are you doing? Where did you get those

    shoes?" Papa spies the opened box. "You've been in my

    things?"

       "I was just___"

        "Don't you go through my things. Those are my 

    things, what little of my own that I have in this zoo-

    house."

        " But were these really yours?" Leo asks. "Did you

    really tap-dance?"

        Papa scowls at the floor. "Take them off. Put them

    back."



    The rain lashes against the window, and the wind rat-

    tles the frame as Leo takes off the shoes, rewraps them

    in the tissue paper, and returns them to the box. His

    father kicks the box into a corner and stomps down-

    stairs, pulling Leo behind him. Papa doesn't know that

    Leo has his little blue book in his pocket, and Leo is not

    about to tell him.

        As he descends the steps, Leo hears the crowd noise

    fading. "Bravo! Bravo, Leo!" He pauses on the steps to bow.

        "Hey, sardine-o!" Pietro shouts. "Your turn to clean

    the bathroom!"

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