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    Unlikely Friends: An 11,000-Mile Odyssey
    Unlikely Friends: An 11,000-Mile Odyssey
    Unlikely Friends: An 11,000-Mile Odyssey
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    Unlikely Friends: An 11,000-Mile Odyssey

    By Sandy Morton Starr

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    When a middle-aged woman with grown children and a much younger gay man become great friends and decide to take a "bucket list"-type journey across country, many unlike events come to pass. David knew he was not going to live a long life, so he had the desire to see places he'd never seen and visit family and friends while he could. What takes place is a heartwarming tale of hope, friendship and faith.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateFeb 1, 2015
    ISBN9781483549354
    Unlikely Friends: An 11,000-Mile Odyssey

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      Unlikely Friends - Sandy Morton Starr

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      PROLOGUE

      I had always thought it would be fun to perform in a play, but when I reached my forties, I figured it was a dream gone by. Then my daughter saw a notice that the local community theater was having auditions for The Pajama Game and were looking for cast members.

      We decided to go see what it was all about and try out for the play as a fun thing to do together since she would be off to college soon. When I realized that we had to sing a few bars of a song as well as read from the script, I was a little intimidated, but soldiered on anyway. Having been in a few plays with the church theater group, my daughter had a song to sing, but I ended up with Happy Birthday.

      I guess they really needed chorus members, because we both got parts! How exciting! Then my daughter was told she was to be in a performance in high school that conflicted with the Pajama Game and she would not be able to be in the show with me. She urged me to stay and enjoy being in my first play and, though I really didn’t know anyone, I am extremely glad I stayed. In a way, being there changed my life.

      The first few nights, we rehearsed songs and were explained a little about how we were to move between scenes, etc. Fun stuff. THEN came a dance rehearsal! We were randomly paired up with other members of the cast for a picnic scene in which we were to dance around the stage to a song called This is our once a year day or something like that.

      A young fellow came up to me and introduced himself as David and I was to be his partner. Since he had had a lot of experience doing plays, he took me under his wing and helped me to learn the dance. Even though I managed to step on his toes a couple of times, he cheerfully led me through! We spent a lot of the rehearsal evenings chatting and getting to know each other. Although there was a 12-year difference in our ages and certain lifestyle preferences, we seemed to hit it off very well and I managed to make it through my first experience in community theater. I’ll never forget the final act of that play as we took our bows and I was so excited to finally be able to fulfill my dream of being in a play and to sing-dance-act. New loves were born.

      David and I remained friends throughout a number of subsequent plays we were cast in. We used to make up little bits in our shows that were uniquely ours and the director indulged us in our tomfoolery. If we were to meet onstage in a scene, we would hug each other like long-lost friends, and our dance scenes were epic. During the final play we did together, I was to bring him a glass of water to drink onstage. Someone backstage had removed his drinking glass and all I had to bring him was a pitcher of water which he grabbed and drank from it like a man who had just crossed the desert.

      These moments together became very precious as I looked back on them, because we were to learn that our time as friends was to be much shorter than we had previously known. We made the most of every moment, watching TV together at either my apartment or his, went shopping together, went to movies and plays and planned a long

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