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BOOK FOUR

 

Chapter 6

Where’ve you been?

I got back into Denver before noon. I dropped my gear off

at the house…our house, leaving it all on the back patio.

Then I went downtown to find Louisa. I knew it was about

her lunch hour. I was walking up the sidewalk near the entrance

to the AMOCO Building when I saw her friend Margaret

Dunckhorst, who looked very surprised to see me. She said,

“She’s coming this way, about a block back.” I thanked her and

looked for Louisa. I saw her just as she looked up, seeing me.

When she walked up to me, she said, “I’m surprised to see

you here. What’s up?” I said, “I want to be with you, to put

things together the right way, if you’ll have me.” She smiled,

and said that’s what she wanted too.

Before you think that’s the end of this story, what I think of

as a story of uncommon love, rather than a love story…read on.

I went back to our house on South Gilpin Street and

Louisa went back to work. By the time she got home that

afternoon, I’d cleaned up and put my things away. Later we

went out to dinner, and then to the Taste of Colorado street

festival downtown.

The featured act that night was country singer Kathy

Mattea. For her finale, she sang her hit song, “Where’ve You

Been?”. (19) It seemed that we were back on track.