"The long and winding road that leads to your door,
Will never disappear, I've seen that road before It always leads me here,
leads me to your door." -- The Beatles

We drove through, and passed several huge homes and a few where you only saw a gate and driveway. It took us another five minutes to get to Betty's estate. When we pulled up to a set of beautifully carved, solid wooden gates, Harry stopped and pressed a button in a box attached to his sun visor. The gates slid open slowly, and I entered a different world…

"Memories light the corner of my mind.
Misty water color memories
Of the way we were." - Barbra Streisand

Oh, memories, we relive them each and every day. If only we were more aware!...

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I tuned them out and began thinking again...

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"Joyfully now to our princess we come
Bringing gifts of all good wishes..." -- Disney's Sleeping Beauty

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"Baby, baby, ooh 'til it's hurtin' me,
'Til it's hurtin' me, Ooh, baby love..."
--+-- The Supremes (B.Holland/L.Dozier/E.Holland,Jr)

A Life Ever Changing #30 & #31

Baby Love

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"Be Bop A Lula, she's my baby,
Be Bop A Lula ...don't mean maybe,
Be Bop A Lula, she's my baby doll..." - Gene Vincent

A Life Ever Changing #28

Baby Doll

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"Let's go where I'll keep on wearin' those frills and flowers and buttons and bows, rings and things and buttons and bows." -- Dinah Shore/Livingston and Evans

A Life Ever Changing #26

Buttons and Bows

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"I have heard you calling in the night." — Hymn
"Be my everlasting. Be my hearts desire." - Chris Cullum
"...playing with those memories again,
And just when I thought time had set me free" - Air Supply
"Like a little voice inside my heart" - No Secrets
"...have you ever felt a memory pulling at your insides?" - One Dollar Short
"I only wanted all that's best for you" - No Authority
"And my pride was stronger when I was younger" - Patty Loveless
"Let’s listen to the voice deep within..." - Akilles
"There's nowhere else on Earth I'd rather be" - Bryan Adams
"You wanna find my soul" - Ashes
"...I can't see tomorrow" - Larry Rushton & Jeremy Cash

"...my old friend, I've come to talk with you again." - Simon and Garfunkel

A Life Ever Changing #22

Hello, Darkness

by Angel

Just then the doorbell rang! OH! NO!...

This chapter has been rewritten in several areas.

"They've got everything you need, roll up for the Mystery Tour." - The Beatles

"Strange fascination, fascinating me..." -- David Bowie

I was ready to go home...

"I've been waiting for someone new to make me feel alive, Yeah, waiting for a girl like you..." - Foreigner
"I think I'll tell you something, The thing that I haven't said to a girl like you." - Pete Yorn
"I'm talkin' about the way I feel, And I've never known a girl like you." - Edwyn Collins
"Nothin' satisfies the need in me, For a girl like, a girl like you." - The Rascals
"Love me for the inside, ahh, like you, with a girl like you..." - Def Leppard
"Never did I dream I would find me a girl like you." - Kevin Edmonds
"I'm lookin for a girl like you..." — Aaliyah

A Life Ever Changing #16
Girl-Like-You

by Angel O'Hare

"Chantilly Lace had a pretty face and a ponytail hangin' down..." -- J.P. Richardson

"Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, it's a ..." -- The Kinks

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"Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see... Come together--over me." -- The Beatles

"Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree..." -- Irwin Levine and L. Russel Brown/Tony Orlando and Dawn

"Cherish is the word..." - T.Kirkman/The Association

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A Life Ever Changing
Chapter Two
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Why Can't a Boy be More Like a Girl?
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