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Enjoying "Hamilton" Then Facing The Music

6/26/2017

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    After the Sunday afternoon Chicago matinee of "Hamilton" a line formed behind the theater at the back stage door for the opportunity to talk to the actors, who would soon come out to mingle with their fans.
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     However we opted to skip the line and just bask in the magic of the wonderful experience of having seen the musical.
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     Tommy, Emily, Justin and Maria decided to stroll around the Loop for a while,
...while Callie, Theresa, and I headed back to the Holiday Jones to relax for a bit,
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 before hopping back on the "L" to Claire and Miguel's Logan Square neighborhood,
   
...where we ran into the others,  who'd just returned, also via the "L,"  from downtown.
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     So we all walked together to Claire and Miguel's house,
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...where we dug into the tasty left-overs from our cook-out the day before.
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     In our family a party's not a party without some yummy "lefties" for later (see post from 3/11/2014).
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     But as we all sat around enjoying that balmy Sunday evening, our last night together, I began to feel a nervous brewing inside, like wisps of internal storm clouds, as I realized that weekend was almost over and come Monday  we were going to have to face the music to the tune of we didn't know how much money and agita,
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...for our injured car which we'd left at an Indiana garage the previous Friday evening (see post from 6/18/2017).
      The music arrived at 7:30 am the following morning in the ringing of Tom's cell phone, a call from the Indiana garage owner informing us that our car's under carriage was torn apart to the tune of at least $7,500 and three weeks or more in the repair shop.
       So at least we knew the prognosis.  And it didn't really seem so bad.   After all,  Tom and I reminded ourselves,  we'd walked away from what could have been a terrible accident miraculously unhurt, and as for the expense...so what, really?  We had the money in the bank to pay the $1,000 insurance deductible and another $1,000 for a rental car for three weeks.
       In fact what troubles me most about this event,  when I think about it, is the question of what we would have done if we didn't posses the means to give this story a happy ending,

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...and  the troubling knowledge
that there are many struggling people out there who don't.

                            A romantic
                   comedy of errors.

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      "Equal And Opposite Reactions" is now available in Kindle Edition, and also at http://www.blackrosewriting.com/romance/equalandoppositereactions, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com
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    "Equal And Opposite Reactions"
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