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Twice Upon A Time
Heliocentric XXV
She¹ returned to Barcelona at age twenty-five, planning to spend two weeks, with side trips including Seville. She’d been studying Spanish.
On her second night there, in a club in the El Reval neighborhood, she met She², a beautiful woman with whom a mere two days later words of love were being exchanged; and two days after that, as they traveled together to see The Alhambra they knew this was something extraordinarily special.
Their conversations and affection wrapped around each other as She¹ told She² of her first trip to Barcelona seven years earlier with her parents, a reward for finishing high school. The city had planted a seed with its many wonders — the architecture of Gaudi and the passionate music everywhere. She recalled her father getting pickpocketed at La Rambla. She fell in love with the language! She experienced new culinary delights.
There was this lovely place in Barrio Gotico called Anómalo that turned her onto both calamari salad and sun dried tomatoes; two favorites since.
Oh my god, hold on, said She ², startled. I waitressed at that restaurant five years ago. It’s vague, but wait — did your father have a mustache with waxed ends? You had short hair then!?
Only thin filaments of memories stirred, but sufficient enough, after filling in…
