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“SHALL I ADMIRE” HER ANOTHER 50 YEARS?

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YESTERDAY,

after growing my hair out for six months,

I chose  a vintage Hermes scarf to tie it back

in the Vogue model style I wore when

she first fell in love with me.

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Friday, March 13, 1970

I squeezed into a Saks Fifth Avenue label outfit

from the early 70’s that she’d packed away.

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I applied Germaine Monteil makeup coaxed

from half-a-century old tin foil samples.

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I selected a pair of Trifari, love-knot, 

clip-on earrings that haven’t seen daylight

for five decades.

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Neither had the ecru garter belt and bare beige nylons

I slipped into with less ease.

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Finally, I splashed just a hint of Shalimar 

to the nape of my neck.

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It worked.

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TODAY,

she asked me to make an appointment

to get my hair cut.

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She returned the outfit, scarf, garter belt and nylons

to the memento place at the bottom of

our 19th century humpback trunk.

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She mentioned she missed the emerald studs 

I’ve worn daily in my earlobes for thirteen years.

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She sprayed Shout on the Germaine Monteil

makeup stained washcloth.

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And … let me think …

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Oh! … yes.

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She wrote “Shalimar” 

on her holiday shopping list.

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SERIOUSLY, MOM, you didn’t know?

CHARITY BEGINS ALONE

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Charity

Some women choose other women for support, but many of our mother’s generation behaved like perpetual damsels in distress needing a man around to help them with the simplest things, catering to every male entering a room, putting their needs first and foremost, soliciting their opinions before making a decision, giving them the larger portions, the better chairs, the greater control, and endlessly feeding their egos.

Above all, they needed to be married to a man while encouraging every female within their inner circle to adopt their medieval mindset.

Elizabeth’s mom was like that, marrying three times after Liz’s dad suddenly died (although Liz ignores the nuptial that was annulled).

My mom was just as assiduous in promoting second-class citizenry, except for getting hitched again. Nevertheless, that didn’t stop her from relentlessly urging her daughters to marry, and dragging men into every conversation and situation.

Once, while leaving a Broadway show at the Palace theater in Manhattan, she grabbed the elbow of a man trying to maneuver the crowd outside the entrance and asked him what bus we should take to get uptown.

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“How the hell would I know?” he steamed at her. “Do I look like a bus driver for God’s sake?”

“Well!” she huffed.

“That was Don Knotts, Mom.”

“Where?”

“The man you just asked for directions.”

“Andy Griffith’s Don Knotts?”

“Yes.”

“He certainly wasn’t very polite.”

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