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30 Days, 30 Stories: Story #3
Time for Story #3 of the 30 Days, 30 Stories challenge. This one is a little different from the original story I'd planned.
Story #3: Edelweiss
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When I was a kid, my mother and I watched "Sound of Music" whenever it was on TV. It didn't matter that we'd both seen it way too many times. As soon as Barbara found out it was coming on TV, she'd get as excited as a little kid on Christmas morning. Back then, the US networks tended to show "Sound of Music" around Easter. My mom and I would sing along with all the songs and sigh happily as Maria and Georg von Trapp fell in love. We both hated the Baroness for sending away Maria, but we loved that the nuns and the Abbess convinced Maria to go back. Sometimes my great-aunt would join us for our "Sound of Music" lovefest. We'd pop some popcorn and swoon when Christopher Plummer realized he'd fallen head over heels for our Maria.
One year I realized all three of us had a crush on Christopher Plummer. My great-aunt would shake her head and say, "Mmm-hmm- That Christopher Plummer has always been a handsome son of a gun." She still says it.
After our first summer together, Tord had to go to Switzerland to do his research at CERN. We sent many email to one another. That first month, he even sent me a dozen roses to remind me of how much he loved and missed me. But what I loved most was the box full of Swiss chocolate bars he sent. I shared the chocolates with Kendra and Michele. I think they were some of the best chocolates I'd ever had. But what I treasured most in that box was not the chocolates--it was something small and white he'd tucked inside the letter he'd written. A perfect edelweiss he'd picked for me while he was hiking in the Alps with a colleague.
I gasped--how had he known? I'd never told him how much I loved "Sound of Music" or how that scene when Georg finally sings with the children and Maria watches him with her heart on her sleeve was my favorite part of the movie... He'd picked it for me simply because he loved me.
My great-aunt likes to tease me and say I have my own Christopher Plummer. I guess I do. When Tord cuts his hair, he does look a bit like Georg von Trapp...and he does indulge my love of Austrian Christmas markets and glühwein and singing "Edelweiss" off-key whenever I am on Austrian soil...
#30Days30Stories #writing #challenge #vignette #edelweiss
http://youtu.be/O_rwb39L3Eo
Story #3: Edelweiss
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When I was a kid, my mother and I watched "Sound of Music" whenever it was on TV. It didn't matter that we'd both seen it way too many times. As soon as Barbara found out it was coming on TV, she'd get as excited as a little kid on Christmas morning. Back then, the US networks tended to show "Sound of Music" around Easter. My mom and I would sing along with all the songs and sigh happily as Maria and Georg von Trapp fell in love. We both hated the Baroness for sending away Maria, but we loved that the nuns and the Abbess convinced Maria to go back. Sometimes my great-aunt would join us for our "Sound of Music" lovefest. We'd pop some popcorn and swoon when Christopher Plummer realized he'd fallen head over heels for our Maria.
One year I realized all three of us had a crush on Christopher Plummer. My great-aunt would shake her head and say, "Mmm-hmm- That Christopher Plummer has always been a handsome son of a gun." She still says it.
After our first summer together, Tord had to go to Switzerland to do his research at CERN. We sent many email to one another. That first month, he even sent me a dozen roses to remind me of how much he loved and missed me. But what I loved most was the box full of Swiss chocolate bars he sent. I shared the chocolates with Kendra and Michele. I think they were some of the best chocolates I'd ever had. But what I treasured most in that box was not the chocolates--it was something small and white he'd tucked inside the letter he'd written. A perfect edelweiss he'd picked for me while he was hiking in the Alps with a colleague.
I gasped--how had he known? I'd never told him how much I loved "Sound of Music" or how that scene when Georg finally sings with the children and Maria watches him with her heart on her sleeve was my favorite part of the movie... He'd picked it for me simply because he loved me.
My great-aunt likes to tease me and say I have my own Christopher Plummer. I guess I do. When Tord cuts his hair, he does look a bit like Georg von Trapp...and he does indulge my love of Austrian Christmas markets and glühwein and singing "Edelweiss" off-key whenever I am on Austrian soil...
#30Days30Stories #writing #challenge #vignette #edelweiss
http://youtu.be/O_rwb39L3Eo
