Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Keith


Bit of a cheat today's picture. It hasn't been taken by me but it is of someone I knew when I was about 23. And I have just learned that he has died at the end of last month. Heaven knows why in this school picture he is surrounded by girls, but then it seems strangely fitting. I had quite a crush on Keith- a saxophone player in a band led by a dear friend of mine. But ours was not to be a relationship. Just ships passing in the night. But I did inadvertently introduce him to his wife. He met her at one of my parties. One of those desperate occasions when you hope the light will dawn at your party that you are the girl for him, but find to your horror the light instead reveals another , and you are forced to witness the man of your dreams meet the woman he will fall in love with, and it isn't you. I am sad he has died so young. He was very talented. And no he wasn't for me. But something must have marked me in the exchanges we had. I chose another saxophone player in the end.....

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