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"If your house caught fire and you could only take one thing, what would it be?" This (sort of) happened to me once, years ago, when I was in graduate school in biochemistry. The fire alarm bell went off in the apartment building where I lived in the middle of the night, and we all had to evacuate. I was only partly awake and, besides, there was no time to think. I didn't realize what I had done until I was outside the building, standing and watching. I looked down at my hands to see what was in them, and voila -- my violin and my research notebook. Fortunately, there was no fire, just a false alarm.