Real Love Remembered

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Early summer 1947: Alice was twenty years old and feeling

tired from summer school. She ate little for dinner and retired

early to her room. Sometime around nine o'clock, Alice's stomach

began to ache for want of food.

Not until she reached the kitchen, did Alice notice all the lights

in the house were off and the gramophone loving produced Debussy.

She slowly stepped into the adjoining room.

Outside the living room window, two people sat side by side.

A petite figure resting it's head against the large shoulder next to it.

Alice quietly crept closer to get a better look.

Her parents, seldom displaying physical affection for one

another, were holding hands and gazing at the moon

on a peaceful summer night.

Claire de Lune danced on the humid air,

along with the rhythmic cicadas,

as longtime lovers enjoyed each others company.

Noiselessly, Alice made her way back through the house.

Eventually finding the way back to her room. Rarely a time passed,

when Alice heard the romantic sounds of Claire de Lune,

did she not think of her parents.