ros051222em83.mp3
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[000] Now, the Rest of the Story.
[001] Regis Wilson was a 14-year-young school girl about to
embark upon the most magical evening of her life: her
first prom.
[002] It was her boyfriend's high school prom actually.
[003] He was an 18-year-old senior at Humes High.
[004] Regis had known him for 4 months.
[005] They'd met at [a] birthday party from which he escorted
her home.
[006] That was her first [date] with any boy ever, the first of
many with the young men whom she would always remember as
her first love.
[007] Regis was attending a strict parochial school at the
time.
[008] Yet even her Catholic nun teachers would [have approved]
of this boy, quiet, well-mannered.
[009] The places they dated were ultimately honorable[: the
mall, shop,] the church.
[010] Sometimes the two would just sit in [a] swing on
Regis'[s] front porch, talking.
[011] Regis always got a good[-]night kiss but never the
slightest suggestion of anything more daring.
[012] Then the day for which she had hoped when her darling
boyfriend asked her to his senior prom[!]
[013] Never was a girl [lovelier] on [] prom night.
[014] Regis wore [a] strapless pink tabard dress and a pink
carnation.
[015] A talented beauty school student did her hair for free.
[016] And off she and her [beau] went down to the Peabody Hotel
through a giant heart-shaped door and into the ballroom
where dreamy music echoed from a dance band.
[017] And then, and then, young Regis Wilson, from the boy she
thought she knew so well, she learned the rest of the
story.
[018] He had a confession to make.
[019] He said it was something he knew he should have told her
earlier.
[020] He said he was sorry, but he said, "I can't dance."
[021] Well, they sat down, and the boy explained how his first
girlfriend Betty had tried to teach him the two-step 3
years before, but no matter how hard she tried, his
clumsiness kept him from learning, and how Betty, who
loved to dance, quickly found a boy who could, and so he
never learned to dance and probably never would.
[022] Yet what might have disappointed any young lady attending
her first prom only made Regis Wilson smile and love her
boyfriend all the more.
[023] They didn't have to dance, she told him[,] just walking
through the heart-shaped door and being there with him
was quite enough for her and more.
[024] And so the two listened to the music, and they talked
[and] held hands, and the magic spell remained unbroken.
[025] Regis Wilson and her shy young man were not to marry.
[026] Financial reversals forced her family to move away from
Memphis that spring of 1953.
[027] And yet although Regis married another man 3 years later
and has remained happily married to this day, each spring
time[,] in a secret [reprise] quite too [deep for] anyone
else to reach, she drifts backward through time[,] and
through a giant heart- shaped door to a place where
happiness was more than a dance, to a boy who loved her
tenderly but was too self-conscious to step out on the
floor.
[028] He never did learn to dance with a woman you know, never
did.
[029] And yet solo, he set countless millions of feet to
dancing [] and the world on fire: just a sweet, awkward,
highschool boy named Elvis Presley[!]
[030] Now, you know the rest of the story.
첫댓글 5] ecourt->escort 오타네요.
Corrected. Thank you for pointing out the typo.