It was all so much bigger than her. There was so much at stake she barely understood, and yet here she was. Technological advancements threatening the future of century-old jobs, gender and age discrimination, the rights of the workers versus the owners’ drive to keep an industry afloat. Thousands of families, children, lives sweated out under the desert sun, the entire economy of a region, the political balance of a key swing state in the upcoming election. And at the center of it all, Mary Ann, a harpsichord, and the flimsy plastic toy bulging awkwardly against her left thigh.