As Time Goes By.
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Sunday, February 23, 2014
As Time Goes By.
As Time
Goes By.
pg. 21
ONE EVENING BECAME memorable. It
was just the four of them at dinner. Etienne and Mimi announced to the Porters
they would marry in the Spring. Several toasts to their happiness later, Mr.
Porter—forgetting to wink—began: We were also twenty-four and nineteen once.
I was ready to go to work. I had just received my orders from the Bishop so
immediately started for Lois’ farmhouse to give her the news. It was a
beautiful summer afternoon.
Mrs. Porter, her body motionless
anticipated his words, savoring the scenes they evoked as the dining room: filled
with the song of birds, the
rustling of their feathers in flight, the smell of the cherry tree where they
alighted and of lilacs in bloom.
We were alone in the porch of
her parent’s farmhouse. Mr. Porter
continued: I have to leave next week. I came to say good-bye, I said,
and had to look away, overcome by my emotions. By this nineteen-year-Old’s
beauty, her lilac blue eyes, honey colored hair, bright rose lips, hourglass
silhouette. When I looked at her again it was to blurt out: I came to ask you
to wait for me. I’ll be gone two years....
Sunday, February 9, 2014
As Time Goes By.
As
Time Goes By.
pg.
19
MIMI
AND ETIENNE liked to go to the movies. He immersed himself in them analyzed
them, delivery of lines, lights, plot, how actors, actresses moved. Mimi
listened delighted. You have Ava Gardner’s shoulders he murmured. His voice distilled
lust.
The
Fox theater on Market Street splendid, elegant with an organ that was renowned
around the world was their favorite. They went there most Friday nights with
Lorena and Teddy in their brand new Nash Rambler which they lovingly washed and
waxed every Saturday morning.
Most
Sunday afternoons Etienne picked her up at Rosita’s and drove her to Mercedes
Street. They would let themselves in—the front door was never locked—to find
the Porters settled in their living room reading side by side, or watching a
variety show on their black and white television console. She idolizes Bing
Crosby, Mr. Porter would wink at the
young couple.
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