A 75-foot headphone cord plugged into Aunt June’s stereo system wound through furniture in the living room, across the kitchen floor and down a narrow stairwell into a pair of headphones attached to a 10-year-old Howie Cort. She was focusing on matching the beat of songs, one by one, from her cous

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