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Symphony 9, “Unfinished” (Shubert)
Joline (thoughts)
September 15, early morning hours
I did what Alois told me to do. I dressed up. It was midnight on my clock.
Of course, you’ve never seen that dress. I bought it the day when you didn’t come home. In the morning, you’d told me you’d had a serious talk with your investment agent and you were pretty confident : Things would turn out fine for us as they had always done. You were lying. You wanted to make me smile. You wanted to see joy on my face before running away.
I’ve never had an opportunity to wear that dress except for tonight. It has traveled a lot , carefully folded in my suitcase or hanging expectantly in my cabin closet on my days off; I was pleased to look at it. It has toured the Mediterranean and a good part of the Atl
