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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Close Encounters of the autograph kind |
| Date | Fri, 4 Jun 2004 18:24:42 -0400 |
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I think we have a winner.
----- Original Message -----
From: <MBaroneO@aol.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: Close Encounters of the autograph kind
> Hey!
>
> I'll make this quick and condensed!
>
> Back in August 1980 when I was 15 years old I had this older female friend
> (she was about 30 at the time - yeah, OLD! - I wish that I was 30 again).
> Anyway, she was a Beatle FANATIC....I mean outta control NUT!
> She asked me (with my mother's permission - she was a friend of mom's too)
if
> I could accompany her to NYC to try and meet John Lennon near the Dakota
> Building.
> We were gonna wait as long as we could near the building to see if he
would
> come out. She knew that he was in town.
> Well, we got to Grand Central Station and took a subway to Central
> Park/Dakota.
> We were not even down there 2 hours when we see a big, black, shiny limo
pull
> up to the curb....and out strolls John and Yoko.
> My friend Ann walks up to them and asks them to autograph some lp sleeves.
I
> was so dumbfounded and paralyzied with fear and awe that I could hardly
move.
> I finally walked up to John and I was shocked to see how thin he was and
how
> many freckles he had on his face and how reddish his hair looked in the
hot
> August sunshine. He was dressed in a suit and tie. Yoko was very
friendly but
> firm. John shook my hand and signed my copy of "Walls & Bridges" (which
of
> course I still have framed) and before you knew it they were whisked away.
> Needless to say I walked around on a cloud of disbelief for the next
month.
> Ann snapped two quick pictures which I have but they aren't scanned.
> How bout that for a *true* story!!!!
>
> MB
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