When I was a kid my Dad signed me and my sister up for this 'enrichment' program when we lived in Germany. Over the year we got to see an opera, a symphony orchestra, a Shakespeare play and several other performances at the Strasbourg Opera House that was just a twenty minute drive across the border to France. It was the most beautiful and ornate building that I had ever been in before or since.
At intermission we would always go upstairs and check out the box seats. We were in what we thought was an empty one once when these three older ladies dressed to the nines returned to their place. We thought we were in trouble but I guess we charmed them because they invited us to sit with them and told us all about the opera we were watching (Boris Godunov) and let us use their opera glasses to see the action close up.
I am sure our teacher was freaking out by our empty seats on the floor but we didn't care - we were royalty baby.
At the end of the opera one of the ladies took a gold pin off her dress and put it in my label. It was a cool looking Renaissance sun with a face. When I got home my mother was shocked to discover it was pure gold. What had been a throwaway pin to this wealthy dowager because a prized family heirloom for us.
True Story
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11 comments:
That's very cool! Did you ever meet any of the ladies again, or find out who they were?
Very cool! So, when are you gonna write the memoirs of Cal?
We never did. I thought it might be their permanent box but it was empty the next time we went.
Who would want to read the memoirs of someone not famouse, Wings.
I am really digging these "60 Second Stories." This one was no different. What a building and what an experience...
Revel in those memories. They are what make up a good life.
Oh yeah, definitely want to hear more about this.
Great story, Kal. To say these buildings are impressive just doesn't cut it.
xoRobyn
That's one rococo opera house.
Post a pic of the pin.
Write your emories Cal. Since nobody would like to read a non famous character biography, sell them as fiction and problem solved. Ta da!
It's as though the jeweled aristocrat lady was a fairy godmother blessing you for life when she gave you the sun-faced pin...What a gift!
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