Retype these sentences, making them smoother by changing the parts that are in brackets. When I was, [oh, around] eight years old, I thought it would be fun to learn to play the piano. My parents agreed to purchase a piano. They told me that I would be required to practice one hour a day, [due to the fact that] piano lessons were expensive. At first, I practiced piano for two hours each day, [with the result that] I progressed very rapidly. Every day for two years I raced home [when] school [was done] and practiced the piano with great enthusiasm. Then one day, something happened. I decided I liked baseball better than the piano. Though I can play the piano rather well [at the present time,] I do not practice as long nor as diligently as I once did.