Pushing herself closer and closer, her intensity building, until her scent was released and until her song rose on the air struck silent by the illici... beauty, I watched her, no, heard her commune with the spirits of ecstasy and her husband.Then tears fell.After what seemed like an age, she returned along the pathway. I was torn between following her and going to the bench to enjoy her scent. Her scent was the magnet that day and forever will be.Sitting on the bench, I noticed the memorial. An instant later when she had passed, the man was gone. Mimi leaped-up from the wall and walked briskly towards the trees where she had seen him surely she had seen him? No trace of the man was to be found and she covered the entire area. She could not understand how he could have walked in any direction without her seeing him. All she knew with total conviction is that he had been looking at her and that he meant her no harm. Walking home, she felt an overwhelming sense of disappointment and. I'll see you on Monday," she replied."Oh. Okay," he said, and they hung up.'What was THAT about, ' he wondered.He thought about what to ask Denise. Actually, he'd been thinking about it a lot, without coming to any definite solution — which bothered him. Stan hated talking to anyone without a definite plan of the conversation, beyond superficialities. 'A legacy of my childhood, ' he thought.Stan was an only child, and when he'd qualified to attend one of the last grammar schools in the country. The balcony had a brick partition to each side separating us from the neighboring balconies and a four-foot wall in front. We were on the top floor of the hotel and the view looked out on to parched ground and mountains billowing up before us like storm clouds. The heat shimmered on the ground like an old cine movie. Nothing moved. It was too hot!Just then, I heard a door sliding open on the balcony next to ours. I had noticed some large cracks and damage to the wall and being bored I decided.
Read MoreRelated Videos
