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Every Sunday after Mass, we pick up donuts on our way home.\u00a0\u00a0 The same order ever week: one dozen-3 maple bars, 4 double chocolate, 1 glazed, 2 white with sprinkles, 1 Bavarian cream, and an apple fritter.\u00a0 Add a cup of hot chocolate and a large mocha latte and you have our Sunday treat.\u00a0 Week after week.\u00a0 Month after month.\u00a0 It\u2019s part of the routine of my life.\u00a0 Then the donut shop got a radio and tuned it to the oldies station.<\/p>\n

I stood in line tapping my foot and swaying a bit to the music of my childhood.\u00a0 The teenager behind the counter smiled at me and shook her head.\u00a0 Then a voice behind me sang out, \u201cIf you said good-bye to me tonight..\u201d<\/p>\n

I turned around with a smile on my face and answered, \u201c..there would still be music left to write..\u201d<\/p>\n

We started to sing together, then sway side by side to the music.\u00a0 It was an awful duet, but also kind of wonderful.\u00a0 A 30-something mom of six and a mid-40s short, pudgy, bald man singing out a Billy Joel tune and dancing in the donut line.\u00a0 He was the impromptu Fred Astaire to my Ginger Rogers, except their music was never this cool.<\/p>\n

As the girl handed me my box and drink carrier, my singing partner took my hand and twirled me around, to the further mortification of his teen-aged daughter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks for the song,\u201d I called over my shoulder.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnytime,\u201d he answered back.<\/p>\n

I laughed the whole way to the car and then relayed my tale of song to the stunned silence of my family.\u00a0 Who was this woman in the car with them?\u00a0 The old loo-lahs.\u00a0 How funny they are.\u00a0 We only get this one life.\u00a0 Why not spend it singing out at the top of your lungs and dancing with anyone who wants to dance?\u00a0 Just wait.\u00a0 By the time I\u2019m through, the whole group of them will be singing and dancing in perfectly choreographed steps\u2026.I can see it now.\u00a0 If not\u2026.I\u2019ll always have the donut shop.<\/p>\n

Music to buy donuts to:
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