Elsa Lubinitsky was practicing the Volga Boat Song on the piano. She stopped to watch her father arrange his jacket collar so that it was even all around. He ran a comb through his tangled curls. “Insane.” He turned and winked at her. “I’m going insane.” “No. Really.” “On a date.” He changed his mind and flipped the jacket collar up. “Dinner. A concert.” He made a face at himself in the mirror. “A date with Miss Peebles. You know — the lady who works at the art supplies store.” “Oh.” Elsa played another line of the Volga Boat Song. Miss Peebles had a voice that sounded like she’d just sucked in air from a helium balloon. “Can we go?” Luba, Elsa’s younger sister, whined. With one hand she waved a sheet of paper with an outfit she’d designed for a giraffe cut out of a National Geographic magazine. In the other, she poised some scissors so the blades made a V.
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