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This 85-year-old grandad's lockdown piano playing in memory of his beloved wife Pat has gone viral and turned him into a TikTok sensation. Alan Melinek threw himself into his love of tickling the ivories after losing Pat, his wife of 46 years, to ovarian cancer.
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