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For those of you who don’t already know this, I’m a classically trained musician. Despite my classical training and despite having lived an hour from St. Louis for eighteen years of my life, I had never seen the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra perform in Powell Symphony Hall. There’s a first for everything, and this weekend I experienced [...] Online dating was a brilliant way to meet new people and explore a new city when I moved to New York. For the most part I was successful with it, but nothing in life is 100% wonderful all of the time. This guy’s online profile talked about his love for music and the arts, but my hopes [...] Flying solo in Southeast Missouri can drive a girl to desperate measures. That’s why I was so surprised, when, as I nosed through the tiny village of Caledonia, Missouri, I came eye to eye with this handsome man. Hansome Man, photo by smalltowngirl Oh, that thin little tie! Oh, that bright white smile! Oh, those dimples! And [...] I used to listen to The Eagles often. The lyrics of the last stanza of the song, “New York Minute” say, What the head makes cloudy I sat with Jeff on a park bench in Chinatown watching teenagers in t-shirts toss a football to one another. It was nearly fifty degrees today after weeks of temperatures that hovered around zero, so warm sunshine and the lunar new year brought a sense of lightness to the park around us. My hope when he invited [...] We began talking. I apologized for snapping at you during brunch. You accepted my apology. Things seemed okay, but I had a lot on my mind. We were sitting on the white couch, and you reached out for me. I needed to talk, not to be held. Even now, when you aren’t here to hold me, [...] |
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