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Puff, the Magic Dragon
I accepted a dare
Many years ago before 2013, I met a “bad boy”. Probably what attracted me to him in the first place. One Monday night, I was playing trivia alone. Both my kids who were living with me at the time decided to stay home.
I was winning when this guy came along and asked could he join me. He had gorgeous green eyes and the longest eyelashes. “We” won. From then on, we’d go to trivia every Monday night and go for dinner later in the week with our winnings. He was fun to hang out with, although we’d often have an altercation over a trivia answer.
Anyway, one night we went to a different bistro to play trivia and after trivia finished, they had karaoke. I told Shane I couldn’t sing, but he refused to believe me. He looked through the songbook and picked Puff the Magic Dragon.
“Everybody can sing that.” I can sing Puff without any words and I can make my voice sad at the teary part. So I got up to sing. When I sat down, he said, “You were right. You really can’t sing.”
I must have taken it to heart as I’ve never sung that song since that night.
Francis B. not a very exciting story, but I hope you read it.
