These Days/Soundtrack
My iPod is on shuffle right now. I’ve been meaning to make more play lists and download more music. One of these days I’ll find the time. Maybe. Right now Under My Thumb (The Rolling Stones) is playing. And as always when I play music (an addiction), I’m transported back to a distant time and place that still feels close. And so in this moment, I am 15. I am on New York City’s upper west side at the apartment of a congressman’s son. The congressman and his wife are out of town for the weekend, and their son, Billy, is throwing a party. I am there with about 50...
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Nearly twenty-eight years ago when I walked down the aisle, bridesmaids in pink and lavender followed me. Except for a college friend, I knew none of them. Two were wives of my husband’s friends, one was someone I’d just met, and another was my husband’s sister whom I barely knew. As I look back, I barely knew my husband having dated him for merely a year before we married. The lavish wedding was not my choice. Having “just” had a wedding six years before in my parents garden, eloping was appealing, but Mark’s family understandably wanted a wedding for...
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