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‘Let Me Call You Sweetheart‘
20 September 1943
Pietro held the music sheet in his hand as he was ushered into the officers’ mess hall and heard the swoosh of Sergeant Rogers’s retreat, followed by a quickly closed door and a lock being turned. From the outside too?
New Colonel’s face appeared between the red velvet stage curtains, and he beckoned to Pietro to come up. On stage, only one spotlight highlighted the piano. On a couch behind the piano stool languished a blond woman. Her ample breasts bulged out of a low-cut dress. Attractive to be sure, but Pietro recognized a paid companion when he saw one. She smiled, but he turned quickly to the task before him, sitting on the soft piano stool. Dio Mio. He hadn’t felt this kind of softness under his backside in years. He smoothed the
