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Just Wanted To Have a Drink and Go Home Early(Begin playing Barry Manilow’s “Looks Like We Made It” [1977]) There you are looking just the same as you did last time I touched you, Fade out) Why is it that we can look so hard for something, and not find it, and yet as soon as we give up the search, or decide that we don't really need it, it finds us? (Play “Looks Like We Made It,” Looks like we made it, fade to background and out.) The time was September, 1977. I had just come back from another month out west. I'd had a good enough time, I'd made new friends and visited with Tom and Ron again. But, Michael was gone from my life, or so I thought, and I was feeling kind of blue. (Fade in “Looks Like We Made It,” Love’s so strange—playin’ hide
and seek with hearts and always hurting. fade to background and out.) I decided to go out to Martin's for a drink. I just wanted to be quietly left alone and to go home early. John, whom I didn't yet know, was eyeing me from the other end of the bar, and I was trying to ignore him. Enter Cliff, with whom I had had a couple of dates. We chatted, and then he introduced me to his new lover, Spain, (fade “Looks Like We Made It” into background) and we talked some more above the din of the disco music. "There's someone here that you just have to meet. He's a real nice guy, and a professor like you." Cliff was talking about John, whom I had been trying to avoid. (Fade out “Looks Like We Made It”) John was of Sicilian descent--olive-skinned, dark-eyed and big-nosed. He taught college English. I didn't find him particularly attractive, but he was nuts over me. What man doesn't like a little attention, especially since it's so rare? So I started dating him with a rather blase attitude. (Fade in “Looks Like We Made It,” Because you were there, everwhere fade out.) |