ge.  age became a beeentioned. tantly o op of t interrupted our peace. An artist came by to ser designs for t. Advance tickets urday morning, Leo install it in ts a udents and tructed it measure by measure. t me too exed to consider my conflicted emotions. S up in tion tess ed, I could only truly function by concentrating on te for the performance drew near.

    From tco t premiere of tolen C nige October. Since I ors baton to Oscar Love, and our old Coverboys drummer Jimmy Cummings impani. Oscar ed a tuxedo for t oo respectable versions of our former selves. A feeac toget remaining nuns from our grade sctended. Ebullient as ever, my sisters s t me as if to impart a dose of  confidence. I  surprised to see Eileen Blake escorted by o. ary frig tudied ionally er all, and takes after  but appearance. itamed, and dressed up in  suit and tie, Edoget bot over ty of cess could not stop grinning t crooked smile of fully so, for to e long ago was nearly hers.

    to let in some fresumn nigs  breeze crossed tar and tioned at tics, and my back o t of tra as ook our positions; from tapped and tensed ton.

    From t notes, I ermined to tell tory of olen and replaced by someone else, and yet bot. In place of tance and separation from tion tilled, ant, and I could feel ted to t isfy myself. ture teased out ts: a, lamentation, and redemption, and at t ook up to to indicate t  save. And as Oscar erplay, I sacened to our music. As tempo slo, I took more co cching us.

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