The Diary of Maria and Elynnor

Epilogue - Maria

Now that my musical/business partner of three years, Elynnor Dahlia Tullerin-GOLDE, has married, I can expect her future children to take over our HGOH (Hubert-Golde Opera House, formerly known as the Hubert-Tullerin Opera House). Hmmmm. At least, that’s what Ely’s friends were joking about secretly behind our backs (they’re really bad at keeping a lid on things, really) while she and I were rehearsing our operatic duet together by the Grand Piano. Ely says she is not planning to have children too soon, and I hate to put pressure on her to conceive any with Robbert just for my sake. After all, I never conceived any children with Erich myself. Even when I was her age, I was more business-oriented than I was family-oriented. That trait stuck with me all the way until Erich died. So we have no heirs to the family business.

If Elynnor could give US some heirs it would be nice. But no pressure on her for now. She and Robbert have been married for merely three short months.

The silly girl asked me what our duet, which I have penned with her, was all about. I told her it’s about the loving and sometimes unstable relationship between a mother and her daughter. She spat out her rea and asked me how come I never told her about any daughter that I have. I laughed and told her how I never had any children with Erich, and how SHE is the loving daughter that I’ve never had in my life.

I have never seen Elynnor cry in a long time. Not when she’s such a happy person to work with me and perform with her 200+ friends in such a big group. But then the tears that rolled down from her eyes after I said those words were not tears of sadness. Everyone could see that.

So after rehearsal (we have a public performance celebrating the 30th anniversary of the HGOH coming up soon), Ely went of to find Robbert, who was playing in a rather childlike manner with his friends. I never dreamed of the day I find myself putting up with childish behaviour in my Opera House. But as long as Ely and her friends have that fresh and youthful nature that my younger audiences love and can’t get enough of, I don’t think I’m going to see (or hear of) the end of their juvenile antics anytime soon!

Maria.