Thursday, October 16, 2008
"There you go"
The Johnny Cash song came on the juke box in the corner of the bar. She smiled when she heard it. It had been so many years ago that it was ,at times hard for her to believe that it had ever happened. That she had ever been that kind of women. But it was real and it was the truth, in her younger years it had been her style to break hearts and tell lies. She had been a beauty and even as a small child everyone who met her told her mother that she was going to break a lot of hearts. She had lived up to everyone’s expectations and she had had fun doing it. Now she was your typical grandmother of ten. Her oldest grandchild was getting married in the spring, that girl had definitely not broken any hearts. Sometimes she worried about her and how boring she seemed to be, it just seemed wasteful to spend all that beauty on one man. Oh well, what could a grandmother do. As the music played on she let her mind slid back in time to that hot summer long ago when she met that young musician and broke his heart. She smiled as her body swayed to the music….. “You’re gonna break another heart you’re gonna tell another lie…..”
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8 comments:
Hard to believe that grandmothers were ever capable of the sort of things everyone gets up to.
I like this. The next generation forgets or ignores that their predecessors had a past life. And the generations change.
I like the way you used the record as a memory aide, it's so true that music can remind us of so much.
Nicely written!
After my grandparents died, my mom and aunt were going through their things and found their marriage certificate. Everyone had always celebrated it in August but, lo and behold, they weren't married until the following February and my dad was born in May!
This just tickled me and made my grandparents real for me.
The reverse of what's expected. Usually the young people think Grandma is boring.
loved the reversal of roles of sorts here
What a wonderful post. I nice rememberance of the younger years.
Still too young to have broke my heart but if you would have I would forgive you because only love can break a heart and only love can mend it. Memories are made of this.
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