Notes of defiance: Piano-playing mother's Auld Lang Syne brings hope among Beirut ruins

Notes of defiance: Piano-playing mother's Auld Lang Syne brings hope among Beirut ruins
Beirut resident Hoda Melki's mother playing "Auld Lang Syne" on the piano among the debris.

It seems there can be hope in hell.

Beirut resident Hoda Melki has tweeted footage of her mother playing Auld Lang Syne on the piano amid the debris of her home after Tuesday's explosion in the city.

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