ABSTRACT
Virginia, downtown Seattle, late one rainy night in March . Winds, cold and
damp after sunny Tampa, blew up from the Elliot Bay docks, and the sounds of the
city-the biggest he had ever been in-surrounded RC. How could he find Gossie? He
spoke to the man at the Traveler’s Aid desk, and soon a local radio station began an-
nouncing that RC Robinson, a blind piano player, was at the bus station waiting for
his friend Gossie McKee. RC sat down on a bench, listening to the people walk by.
