(Audio Piece) Deborah Cox, 61, is a pianist who plays Sunday mass every week at the House of Mercy homeless shelter in Rochester, N.Y. Cox began playing at age three when her father brought home a piano that someone gave him from his church. Cox grew up in the 19th Ward in Rochester. When she lived there, she described the neighborhood as being “predominantly white,” and that her family never felt out of place but rather sheltered. Cox has always been religious, as her father was a pentacostal pastor, and she began playing in his Church when she was ten years old. She describes herself now as a Bapti-pento-metho-catholic, which is a combination of Baptist, Pentocostal, Methodist, and Catholic. Cox played at many venues, churches, funerals, concerts, etc. all throughout her childhood, which led to a copious amount of stress and pressure felt in her young adult life. The majority of the stress was from those who were supposed to be the closest people to her, such as those in religious settings and those in her own neighborhood.