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The latest news: my new story, Rose of Anzio, inspired by CandyCandy is now released on Amazon. The story is about Candy and Terry’s daughter, Tessa, and Albert’s son, Anthony Ardley. http://bit.ly/RoseOfAnzio-Moonlight

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I don’t post here nearly enough, but that’s because I’ve been very busy writing a new Candy Candy inspired story, “The Rose of Anzio”. It’s an epic love story of Candy & Terry’s daughter, Tessa Graham, and Albert’s son, Anthony Ardley. The story spans the years 1940 to 1945. I’m on Book 3 already. It is a much much more compelling story than the novella I posted here.

I hope to publish it sometime this year. Meanwhile, Loreley, CC Fan Artist, created this piece of artwork for my story. Loreley’s DeviantArt page is: http://loreley25.deviantart.com/ if you want to see more of her Candy Candy fan arts. You can also follow her on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Loreley/294697827401848

Will keep all you Candy Candy fans updated. :)

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A Sequel to the Candy Candy Final Story

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I uploaded the entire story on Wattpad. If you would like to read this story to its conclusion, it's here: http://www.wattpad.com/story/16695590-the-one-i-love-belongs-to-somebody-else

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Chapter 17. Candy's Wedding Gown

When Candy returns to the Happy Clinic, Aaron's mother is there as well with Aaron.

"Candy!" says Mrs. Haley who is happy to see her. "You’re back. I’ve been waiting for you."

Candy smiles. "Sorry Mrs. Haley. “So nice to see you. I wasn't expecting you."

"Guess what?" Mrs. Haley says, her voice excited. "I finished making your wedding gown! It is ready fora fitting and I want you to come to my shop and try it on. Can you come now? I cannot wait to see you in it."

Wedding gown!

Candy feels as if her heart is freezing still.

"Mother! You cannot wait to see her in it?" Aaron says, raising an eyebrow. "I cannot wait to see her in it."

"Well too bad for you, you'll just have to wait,” Mrs. Haley rebuffs. “Looks to me that it's getting late anyway. I don't think any more patients will be coming today, and if they do, I'm sure Aaron will handle it. Candy, I insist that you come along. Come, come." Mrs. Haley takes Candy's hand and leads her out of the door. Candy turns and looks back at Aaron. He smiles at her, shrugs and throws his hands in the air and makes a helpless face.

  Mrs. Haley takes Candy into her coach for their short ride to town to Mrs. Haley's tailor shop for ladies' dresses. On their way, Mrs. Haley excitedly talks about the wedding plans – the cake, the flowers, the food. A cloud of guilt falls on her. It is so heavy. She feels that she cannot move.

They reach the tailor shop. Inside, Cecilia is putting some fabric materials away, and Candy is surprised to find Annie there.

“Annie!” Candy exclaims.

“Mrs. Haley invited me,” Annie smiles at Candy. Candy is glad that Annie has come, for she does not want to be alone with only Mrs. Haley and Cecilia at the moment. “I wouldn’t want to miss this!”

“Cecilia,” Mrs. Haley hustles her daughter, “bring out Candy’s gown. Let’s see her try it on.”

“Sure mother,” Cecelia replies. No one detects the tightness in her voice. She goes into the room behind the shop front and brings out the dress.

“Go on, Candy, try it on!” says Mrs. Haley.

Candy takes the dress from Cecilia and goes into the dressing room. She is amazed by it. The dress is beautiful. It is the new flapper style that is all the rage among young women everywhere. Herself never worn a dress like this before. The dress is sleeveless, with lace sewn across the neckline. The front of the dress is shorter than the back, with beautiful embroidered hemline. The softness of the fabric is astounding.

She changes into the gown and goes back to the storefront. Mrs. Haley sees Candy in her dress and cannot contain her excitement. “Oh Candy!” she exclaims.

Candy returns a smile.

“Candy! You look gorgeous!” even Annie exclaims. Her eyes become teary.

“Cecilia, what do you think?” asks Mrs. Haley.

Candy turns to Cecilia. Cecilia looks directly into Candy’s eyes, like she was challenging her to

something. She has never seen Cecilia look at her this way before.

“Let’s put on the headpiece,” Cecilia says and does not answer her mother.

“Yes! Yes!” Mrs. Haley says. She takes out a lace headband that has a flower patterned lace ornament on the side, above which feathers sprout up playfully, and below which dangles strings of beautiful beads and rhinestone ornaments, some in shape of small stars. Mrs. Haley ties the headband around Candy’s head. Two long satin ribbons flow softly from the knot of the headband onto her left shoulder.

“I’d consider a lace clotch, but I don’t think that will work well with your long hair,” says Mrs. Haley.

“That’s so thoughtful of you, Mrs. Haley,” says Annie. “Candy, I wish you would cut your hair short.

Your curls can so easily be made into a beautiful finger wave style.” Annie herself has cut her luscious long hair into a stylish bob cut for quite some time now.

Candy smiles apologetically. She looks at Mrs. Haley who is so happy, and feels ashamed.

“Come look at yourself,” says Mrs. Haley leading her to the full length mirror by the side of the room. Candy looks at her own reflection. She looks not at herself, but the exquisitely made dress that Mrs. Haley must have spent hours sewing. She feels a sense of uncertainty tapping at her mind.

I don’t want to do anything that might hurt this woman. I can never!

“Mrs. Aaron Haley.” Candy hears Annie says, teasing her. “How does that sound, Candy?”

Candy looks up at Annie, as if Annie has just said something entirely incomprehensible to her.

Mrs. Aaron Haley…..

Annie comes behind Candy and hugs her. “All women of the entire town of South Haven will be crushed in just a few weeks.”

Candy turns to look at Annie, and forces a smile. Behind her, Cecilia watches her with pondering eyes.

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Chapter 16. Candy Visits Terry at the Claremont Inn

The Claremont Inn is not very big, but the interior is stylishly decorated with art deco furniture that has become popular in recent years. The hotel lobby is small and intimate. Piano music is playing on a phonograph.

Candy waits for Terry in the lobby, slightly apprehensive.

"Candy!" Terry cannot contain his excitement of seeing her. Candy smiles and nods at him. He has a great urge to hold her tight in his arms.

"Shall we take a walk?" she smiles at him and asks.

It is a beautiful and sunny day. Candy and Terry walk along each other for some time in silence. Candy thinks of how, once, there was a time when it was all she hoped for to be able to be with Terry, and to do simple things with him like taking a walk together.

They come upon a bench and Candy sits down. Terry follows and sits down next to her.

"Shall I get some popcorn too?" Terry asks, smiling. The question made

Candy laughs, and they both became more at ease.

"Terry. I did a lot of thinking last night," she says. Terry's face turns serious.

"It’s really wonderful to see you," she says, and looks at him directly in his eyes. Their eyes lock and they cannot look away from each other. "I can hardly believe you are here. After I left New York, it was all so painful."

"I'm so sorry for what you had to go through, Candy." Terry says. "I don't know how I can ever make up for that."

They remain silent for a while.

"You already made your decision before I went to New York. You just didn't know how to tell me.” She says softly.

"Sometimes, I would think to myself and wonder if I made the wrong choice. But I had to force myself not to think that, because if I did, I would go insane. Right or wrong, I just had to convince myself that what we did was right, if I had to go on."

"I knew what your choice was, so I thought you could fall in love with her," Candy says in a gentle voice.

"I thought that, as long as I leave, everyone would suffer the least amount of hurt."

"Candy, I can never be in love with anyone else."

When he said that, Candy hears the sound of the beating heart again. A fire slowly ignited behind the heartbeats. She tries hard to ignore it.

"Terry, I got engaged six months ago. My wedding is next month." Candy said quietly, almost a whisper.

She looks down at her hands on her lap, at the emerald engagement ring she is wearing. She cannot bear to see Terry's reaction.

Terry feels the world swirling behind him. He looks away from her.

Are we destined to always miss each other?

He lets out a bitter smile. "So, your answer is no?"

He has all but given up. Maybe this is a just punishment for him, that it’s Candy turn to leave him behind for someone else. He feels deflated.

But Candy does not answer. He glances sideway at her. She looks sad. He cannot understand what she is thinking.

"Can you tell me no? Candy?" he whispered. She looks up at him but remains speechless.

"Say you want me to leave, Candy," he says, now with more force in his voice. He takes Candy's hand into his, "Tell me you want me to leave and I’ll go away and never see you again," he says.

Candy looks at him in shock.

To see Terry leave...

Suddenly she is back in the horse-drawn carriage again, racing to the Southampton port.

I must follow Terry. I must catch up with him and tell him, "Don't go anywhere."

Memories come rushing back.

Terry is still holding on to Candy's hand tightly. Neither of them notices a young woman looking at them while on her way out of Inn and about to step into a carriage to leave. She watches them intensely. The young woman is Cecilia, Aaron's younger sister. She has come to deliver some dresses to the innkeeper’s wife.

Terry looks into Candy's eyes, as if he realizes something. A wily smile appears on his face.

"You can't!" he says. "You can't say it. You can't tell me to go."

Candy does not deny this either.

"Candy," Terry says. His voice serious again. "It may be too rude of me to impose like this. But as long as you are not married yet, I won’t leave here."

"Terry!" Candy exclaims. She is worried now. "Terry what do you mean to do?"

"I want you to come back to me," he says. "You said your wedding is next month. I will wait for you here on this bench everyday until you decide to be with me or take your wedding vows."

"Terry, you can't..."

"Don't worry. I will not make troubles with him,” he says, he mutters, “whoever he is." He is unable to say the word fiancée. "I know I have no right to come between you after all that has happened. But until I hear you yourself say no, I won’t give up."

Candy looks down. She dares not think about what Terry’s presence here will do to her. She sighs and slowly pulls her hand back. "I have to go,” she says and gets up from the bench.

  "Come see me when you can, Candy. We lost so much time already. Can’t we have a second chance?"

She starts to leave, but before she does, she hesitates a moment, and then turns back to him and says, “I will think about it.”

She then left quickly. Heart pounding.

I can never be in love with anyone else.

Terry's words follow her as she walks.

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You Forgot to Remember By Irvin Berlin

In my mind, this song is playing as background music in the hotel lobby as Candy waits for Terry.

For sample of the music, see here:

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Remember-lyrics-IrvingBerlin/E909AD41C90D40164825697

For lyrics, see here: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Remember-lyrics-Irving-Berlin/E909AD41C90D401648256970000F07C9

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Chapter 15. Re-encounter at Pony’s Hill

Two weeks have passed.

The sunset. When she climbs high onto the tree and look at the sunset, she can feel close to Stear.

But I'm getting a little too old to be climbing tree. Not very ladylike. Candy laughed at herself. Nonetheless she makes her way up the Father Tree.

Aaron and Cecilia have gone to their mother’s. Unlike usual, she did not join them. She has not been herself ever since she received Terry's letter.

She still has not made up her mind what to do.

Looking at the sky and lost in her own thoughts, she is not aware that at that moment, a person has walked up the hill toward the tree and is standing below watching her.

That person walks up the small hill that has a panoramic view of Pony's Home. He can see Candy sitting high up on the tree. She is looking at the sky. Even when he reaches the bottom of the tree, she does not notice. For some time, he just looks at her. He cannot believe that she is there before his eyes. He looks at her, and just wants the sight of her to be permanently etched in his mind. He breathes nervously, and does not know at first what to say.

Candy has lost track of time as she leans on the trunk of the tree looking at the sunset. She thinks of Stear flying into that immense sky, heading bravely into the unknown.

"Stear would want you to be happy," Archie had said to her.

Stear, what shall I do? Candy says aloud and wipes a tear from her cheek with the back of her hand.

Terry watches Candy from below. The lines from the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet, which he knows well by heart, come to his mind.

It is my lady, O, it is my love!

O, that she knew she were!

She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?

Her eye discourses; I will answer it.

I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:

Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,

Having some business, do entreat her eyes

To twinkle in their spheres till they return.

What if her eyes were there, they in her head?

The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,

As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven

Would through the airy region stream so bright

That birds would sing and think it were not night.

See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!

O, that I were a glove upon that hand,

That I might touch that cheek!

  Terry laughs at himself. Just then, Candy looks down. Her vision still blurry from her tears, she is not sure if what she sees is real.   

Candy and Terry stare at each other. Both speechless. Slowly, Candy understands that that person she sees really is Terry under the tree.

 "Te...Terry?" she says. Her voice meek.

 "Candy!"

 Candy starts to climb down the tree. Unable to contain her shock, she slips on her way down and falls to the ground.

"Ahhhh!" she yells as she hits the ground. Her back hurts.

Seeing this comical yet familiar scene, Terry laughs. "Has Tarzan lost her primal abilities?"

"What are you saying?" Candy retorts. "I wouldn't have fallen if you didn't show up and surprised me like that!"

"Ok ok. Sorry. Here, let me help you up." He reaches his hand to grab her arm to try to help her. For a moment they both have forgotten where they are. It is as if they are back at St. Paul's at the pretend Pony's Hill.

But the instant he touches her arm, they each feel the heart skip. Terry reflexively withdraws his hand. Candy stands up on her own.

Seeing Terry in front of her, her heart now almost jumping out of her chest. She wishes that she did not fall from the tree and look so awkward in front of him. Her dress is now marred by dirt from the fall, and her hair is disheveled. She wishes that she looks less unkempt at the moment.

"Candy, I didn’t mean to shock you like this." Terry says. Hesitant, he whispers, "I sent you a letter...." He looks at her, and cannot read her reaction. He lets out a slight laugh, and say, "I don't know if you received it, but if you did..."

Candy does not know how to answer. She cannot bring herself to tell him that she received the letter but did not have the conviction to immediately answer it.

"Ah…a letter...that was weak. Maybe you did get it. But if you decided not to answer, well...how can I expect anything of you? You deserve so much more.”

"Terry..." Candy looks at him. Much of his boyish charm is now gone, replaced by a presence that Candy finds irresistible. Is this something he acquired from years of working as a stage actor?

"You've grown up, Terry," she says.

"You've grown more beautiful," he says. Candy’s face blushes at his words. He does not mean to make her feel awkward. The words just came out. He tries to avert his eyes, but cannot. Despite the clumsy fall from the tree, Candy is no longer a tomboyish teenager. Her golden hair gently blown by the wind, revealing the smooth skin of her neck. Terry wants to reach out and touch her neck. She radiates the sensuality of a grown woman that he has not seen before.

Like a ripe apricot.

"I got your letter, Terry,” finally she said. He looks at her, his eyes full of anticipation.

 “I...I needed time to think,” was all she can think of to say.

They stare at each other, speechless. The sun slowly sets and the sky is turning dark.

Terry frowns a little, and sighs, looking down. "Of course,” he says. “Would you come see me, Candy? I am staying at the Claremont Inn."

Candy says nothing and looks down at the ground. Terry turns to take off, a little dejected. Before he leaves, he turns to her once more and said, "I won’t leave until you come see me.”

I won’t leave until you come see me.

I won’t leave until you come see me.

The words echo in her mind as she watches him disappear down the road. Candy hears that sound of the beating heart that she thought she fears. It is the sound of her own heart.

But she is surprised that she does not feel fear. Instead, she feels a longing. As she watches Terry walking away slowly, she feels a longing to run up to him. But she remains standing, her hand holding tightly onto the tree trunk.

………………….

  That night, Candy cannot sleep.

I will go see him tomorrow. Now that he’s here, the matter must be settled one way or another. I cannot ignore him after he came all this way.

She tells herself this as she lies in bed, staring out the window. But she is thinking of Terry—his face, the way he looked at her, the way he walked—and a feeling of sweet sensation overwhelms her. She is happy she saw him. She recalls every word he said to her earlier, and repeats all his words in her mind over and over again. Thinking of him makes her heart races.

The next morning, she tells Aaron that she wants to take a day off from work.

I am just going to go tell Terry that I’m engaged.

"Is everything ok?" he asks her. "You seem so distracted lately."

"Fine. Everything is fine," she says, forcing a smile.

Please don't ask me why I need to take a day off. I don't want to lie to you, and I don't know how to tell you the truth.

Aaron looks at her. He is concerned, but sensing her unwillingness to talk, he does not want to pressure or upset her.

"I will be back late this afternoon." She tells him as she closes the door.

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Chapter 14. Candy’s Letter to Albert

"Dear Albert,

  I never expected it, but yesterday I received a letter from Terry. He says that nothing has changed for him.

Everything happened so long ago. We were so young then. Does not the passage of time turn us all into people we no longer recognize? Can it be possible that he has not changed? Have I changed? Please tell me.

I don't know why I cannot think of the right thing to do. I am Aaron's fiancée. I should love him and think only of him. That should be the right thing to do. But if this is the right thing to do, then why does it feel so wrong if I do not answer Terry's letter?

Would I be betraying Aaron if I simply answer Terry's letter like a friend? I cannot hurt Aaron. But it pains me to think of Terry all alone.

How I wish you are here with me right now. I want to hear your words of wisdom. I want to cry on your shoulders like when I was a little girl again. But I'm not a little girl anymore. I cannot expect you to come to my rescue every time I am distraught.

Still, I am at lost on what to do.

Love always,

Candy

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PART 3. Serenade - Chapter 13. Terry Arrives at Pony Hill.

Candy did not answer his letter, and he does not know why. Perhaps she does not want to hear from him. If so, how can he blame her? He made his choice and let her walk away. Too many years have passed. Perhaps she no longer feels the same way about him. Perhaps he's a fool to hold on to a love that happened so long ago when they were both so young. Perhaps...and he refuses to think it...she is married to someone else.

But perhaps….she did not get his letter?

You should go see her. His mother told him. Isn’t that the real reason why you came back to America?

Terry stood by the windows of his mother’s apartment, looking out, as if searching. Eleanor Baker took another sip of her tea, and put the cup down on the coffee table.

If you still love her then you should go look for her. And then you'll know. She said, looking at her son’s silhouette. Such a lonely figure.

He knows that Eleanor was right. A letter is not enough.

There is that place....

He knows that no matter what, she would always sooner or later return there.

As soon as he decided, he bought tickets to the first train from New York to Michigan. Whatever happens. He has to see her.

On the train he looks out the window. He feels a sense of freedom that he has not felt in many, many years.

The scene of seeing Candy as his train left Chicago comes vividly back to his mind. It bought a smile to his face.

Candy. Can we go back in time?

Terry can barely contain his excitement as he walks toward Pony's Hill. He has anticipated this moment for too long, and he is nervous.

It is close to evening already when he arrives at Pony's Home. He hesitates before knocking on the door. Once again he meets the two women, Ms. Pony and Sister Lane.

Time waits for no one. Even this place has changed.

He notices that Pony's Home has been remodeled and is now bigger. Ms. Pony and Sister Lane look older, and Ms. Pony looks more frail.

What if Candy changed too?

He grimaces at the thought.

The two women are very surprised to see him.

 "Please tell me where to find Candy. I must see her."

Ms. Pony and Sister Lane look at each other. The two women seem uncertain. Then Ms. Pony nods and Sister Lane invites him to come inside. He is about to follow them when a little boy about seven or eight years old runs past him through the door and stands behind Ms. Pony.

"You're looking for Candy?" he asks.

"Yes, do you know where she is?" Terry asks.

 "Of course I do! I'm Peter, her second-in-command. It is my duty to know where she is and report to her in case she summons me," the little boy named Peter said proudly.

"She just went up Pony's Hill," the boy said, pointing to that direction. Then he pouts, "I wanted her to race me but she says she doesn't want to and told me to come back here."

She’s here!

Terry's eyes brighten. He looks back at Ms. Pony and Sister Lane, and says, "Excuse me". He then hurries away.

"Terrence, please wait!" says Sister Lane. But he has already left.

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Chapter 14. Article in New York Magazine “Town Topics”, September 1924

“Susanna Marlowe was ‘Spiteful’, says Terrence Graham’s Friend.”

A year after her death, Karen Kleiss revealed that Terrence Graham’s relationship with playwright, the late Susanna Marlowe, "absolutely destroyed him".

The actress and Graham were both members of the Stratford Theater Group in New York until he moved to London and joined the long-running production of Hamlet. She claimed that the late playwright was “spiteful” and “unkind” towards the actor.

“She made everybody believe that he’d been unfaithful to her, and she was a victim,” Kleiss said in an astonishing interview with the Town Topics.

“Nonsense!” the actress claimed. “He remained loyal and supportive to her. But I believe that he never loved her, and that was why she became spiteful.”

“I don’t want to speak ill of the dead. But the truth was, they were never really engaged. It was a rumor started and perpetuated by her mother. Susanna made public accusations to pressure him to propose, knowing that he would not defend himself publicly. He never denied the engagement only to save her from public humiliation.”

“His stayed with her through the end, but their relationship absolutely destroyed him,” said Kleiss.

Kleiss will star in the upcoming production of “Cleopatra” next fall. “I am thrilled to play this role. I am excited for the chance to work with director Robert Hathaway again.”

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Chapter 11. Article in New York Journal “New York Daily News”, July 1923

“Playwright Susanna Marlowe’s Hospitalized Amidst Ongoing Break-Up Rumors”

  Susanna Marlowe’s relationship woes with actor Terrence Graham might be taking its toll on the former actress’ health.

The couple has lived apart for months when Graham went abroad to London to take on the role of Hamlet in a long running production in Stratford. It was rumored that their separation will become permanent.

In the midst of their break up rumors, the Daily News learned exclusively that Marlowe has been hospitalized for at least six days.

It is not immediately clear why the former actress was hospitalized. A source told the Daily News that she was admitted to emergency care with a high fever, and Graham immediately returned to New York and was with her every step of the way during her hospital stay, staying with her for up to 10 hours every day.

"He would arrive by 10 a.m. and didn't leave until 8 most nights. He seemed very stressed out and worried," a source said. "He would bring food and only left Susanna to go outside to catch some air or to run errands.”

The couple has been embroiled in rumors of an impending break-up for months. Sources close to the couple revealed that Susanna has been distraught that the actor may never marry her.

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Chapter 10. Article in London Magazine “London Tattler”, November, 1922

“Betrayed! Hamlet Star Unfaithful?”

  Sensational new details emerged in the press last night about a letter in which former actress and fiancée of Hamlet star Terrence Graham indicated that he may be involved in an affair with a secret lover.

The bombshell letter was sent in confidence to a close friend, but was disclosed to the Tattler by an unnamed source. In it, Susanna Marlowe was alternately sad, while the next she was raging against her fiancée’s attitude.

In the letter, she is understood to have said: "I have tried to love Terry but he loves someone else." She revealed that although they are engaged and are living together, he never even holds her hands.

Although she did not name who is the third woman, she added that “he is in love with someone else” because he is always so "disinterested" in their relationship. “There are three of us in this relationship, so it’s a little bit crowded.”

The former actress sacrificed her acting career when she saved Graham from a stage accident and lost her leg. But sources close to the couple said that Graham no longer finds her physically attractive after she became disabled, and their relationship deteriorated.

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Chapter 9. Article in New York Magazine “Broadway Brevities” November, 1920

“Susanna Marlowe’s Secret Agony; Playwright Opens Up About Troubled Relationship”

  In a recent interview, Susanna Marlowe describes the lonely despair of her loveless engagement to actor Terrence Graham.

“I am not loved. Terry loves only his work and his piano.”

"He is my soul mate, but he is breaking my heart,” said the playwright and former actress. “But until I figure it out, I don't want things to be any different."

"I owe this relationship more than just saying things are not going smoothly and dismissing it. I need to figure out if he can change."

“I will always be here waiting for him, until his heart turns to me,” she added.

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Chapter 8. Albert’s Piano

Terry sat down in front of the piano that was now in his home. He could not help admiring again its beauty each time he looked at it.

It came to him unexpectedly, from a letter from Albert, the animal-loving wanderer who once saved him from a street brawl.

…………………..

  “Dear Terry,

I apologize for this sudden imposition. But I hope that I can rely on you, my old friend.

You may be pleased to know that I have made a full recovery of my amnesia, and am traveling again. It turns out that my family owns and operates some businesses in Sao Paolo, and I am now there to assist.

Recently, a distant relative in New York passed away. He is an antique lover. Apparently, he has bequeathed an antique piano to me from his precious antique collection. I am quite ignorant of music, but am told that this piano is highly valuable. In any case, it is a gift from someone who thought of me, and I want to handle it properly.

But it is impossible for me to receive it right now as I am in Sao Paolo. I do not have a permanent residence in America currently, and it is impractical to send it anywhere until I do. Then I remember that you are one person I know in New York. Would you mind keeping it safe for me for now? I promise that I will come back for it at once when I next return to America.

I have instructed my deceased relative’s lawyer and executor in New York to contact you.

I can count on you, right, old friend? Thank you.

  Sincerely,

Albert”

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  Terry noticed that Albert did not mention Candy in his letter.

So Albert is no longer living with Candy. I wonder if she’s all alone now.

The lawyer who paid him a visit gave him this letter. With Terry’s permission, the piano was delivered to his home shortly thereafter.

To Terry’s surprise, it truly was an exquisite piece of instrument. Very well preserved. It was made of rosewood, but has black serpentine legs. The engraved designs were refined and done with the highest quality of craftsmanship. He hit a few keys, the sounds that came out were clear and sharp, like small ringing bells.

The first time he put his hand on it, memories came rushing back to him.

“Come on, if you want to listen to my piano more, then jump over the window. Isn’t it a monkey’s specialty?”

 “Female monkey, female monkey! Really, you’re such a rude person!”

A tender smile appeared on his face. He started to play Mozart’s Lullaby. He was aware that behind him, Susanna was watching him. But as he played, he felt that he had carved out a space in which he could be alone even if she was there.

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Mozart (Weigenlied) Lullaby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOUpEeCMxTw

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Terry soon lost himself in the music. The slow lullaby ended and changed to a wild, playful tune. He ran his fingers along the keyboard, and notes came to life. 

“What song is that?” Candy stood behind Terry. “An impromptu. It is called, 'The theme of Freckled Tarzan and a female monkey!'”

  Without realizing himself, Terry let out a chuckle. As he played, he thought Candy and their piano lessons.

When he finished the tune, he heard Susanna said, “Terry, I didn’t know you can play the piano. What were you just laughing at?”

Terry looks down at the keyboard, and without looking at her, replied “Nothing. I wasn’t laughing.” He forced himself to sound gentle.

The dead silence hung in the air.

I can’t stand this. I must be by her side, but I don’t even want to look at her.

He started playing again.

This is good after all. It is a good way to fill the dreadful silence in the air.

Susanna watched him as he played. He was totally immersed in the music. Terry at this moment with downcast eyes was wrapped in an atmosphere that separated him from the rest of the world, in a zone where she cannot reach.

Then the music he played changed radically from the pleasant cheerful sounds of dancing Mozart melodies and became disturbing. The sounds had no harmony, and are completely disjointed. Terry played with an intensity that was as disturbing as the music itself.

When the dissonant sounds finally ended, she asked him, “Such ghastly music, Terry. What is that you just played?”

Terry, resisting his urge to sound annoyed, paused, and said quietly, “Schoenberg. Three Piano Pieces Opus 11.”

He then played that same piece again. Although they were in the same room, Susanna never felt as far away from him than when he played the piano.

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Schoenberg, Piano 3 Pieces Opus 11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsqk5o-hXCM

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Antique piano circa. 1860s.

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Chapter 7. Article in New York Magazine “Broadway Brevities”, November, 1918

“Terrence Graham is the Love of Her Life; Susanna Marlowe’s Mother Confirms.”

  Actor Terrence Graham is the love of former actress Susanna Marlowe’s life, her mother claims.

"The love of Susanna's life is Terrence Graham, I have no doubt about this," said the actress’ mother.

“Susanna is thrilled that he has returned to Broadway. They are so in love. The accident devastated them. Terry was heartbroken for what happened to Susanna, and for a while left Broadway altogether because he could not bear that the woman he loves suffered such a horrific accident.”

Mrs. Marlowe also revealed that the couple is now engaged. “Yes. They have decided to get married, and I can’t be more happy for them.”

No wedding date has been set yet.

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PART 2. The Show Must Go On

The Broadway Brevities and the Town Topics were real publications during this time period. Broadway Brevities began as a journal reporting on the theater, and the story of its rise and fall is as scandalous and salacious as all the stories reported in it. Town Topics began as a publication for art, music, literature, and society. Both ripened and devolved into scandal sheets. The Town Tattler that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about in The Great Gatsby was a vague reference to the Town Topics. The New York Daily News also began circulation at this time. In this Part II, only the London Tattler is fictional.