Lost Sheet Music near Elm Street Greensboro
Description
Yesterday afternoon around 3:40 p.m., I stepped out of the Green Bean Cafe on Elm Street with a blue spiral-bound sheet music folder, and I must have dropped it somewhere near the Greensboro Historical Museum steps. The cover has my name scrawled in pencil, and inside are pieces I’ve practiced for weeks for an upcoming recital. Those sheets are irreplaceable to me, and I’m hoping someone picked them up and left them somewhere obvious. I’m feeling a mix of frustration and relief at the possibility that they’re simply waiting to be reclaimed near the cafe or on Elm Street, by the museum.
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