My Song Memories
Number
18 and its accompanying memory
This
has to be one of my most precious song memories. The song, Cats In The Cradle,
I had never heard before. However, I met a young lady named Rosie while chatting
with some friends in Classmates. Come to find out Rosie, and Jim, another
one of our chat friends, actually went to West Tech high school and dated
their first year in school. However, Rosie said she wanted to go to Hollywood
and become a big movie star so she left Ohio in her tenth grade and searched
for her fame. In her own words, it never came. She said she made a couple
of B or C movies that we probably had never heard of and we left it at that.
Over time, her and I became pretty good chat buddy friends. She even mentioned
she might have to come out to San Diego and visit me. One day I got an email
from Jim saying Rosie had been in a very bad accident and was in the hospital
in critical condition. Seems some hit and run driver smacked her while she
was jogging and caused severe head wounds. After some time, she was finally
released from the hospital but instead of going back home in Arizona, she
went and stayed with her son. She finally came back on line and we were all
so happy to hear from her. She asked me for the impossible. She asked me to
find a song for her, she did not know the name of it, nor did she know who
sang it but it was something about a boy and his dad and growing up. That
was it. Well I went to my pinochle lobby of friends and in no time at all
was given the name of the song; Cats In The Cradle by Cat Stevens. I downloaded
the song and sent it to her and asked her if this was the song she was looking
for. You could almost see the tears in her response. It was, indeed, the song
and she couldn't thank me enough. Here is what makes me so proud of finding
this song for her. Two weeks later they had to rush her back to the hospital
and she passed away. Jim told me she had told him how much she loved that
song and couldn't thank me enough for finding it for her. Quite obvious why
I love this song. This one's for you Rosie.
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Number 18 and its accompanying memory
This has to be one of my most precious song memories. The song, Cats In The Cradle, I had never heard before. However, I met a young lady named Rosie while chatting with some friends in Classmates. Come to find out Rosie, and Jim, another one of our chat friends, actually went to West Tech high school and dated their first year in school. However, Rosie said she wanted to go to Hollywood and become a big movie star so she left Ohio in her tenth grade and searched for her fame. In her own words, it never came. She said she made a couple of B or C movies that we probably had never heard of and we left it at that. Over time, her and I became pretty good chat buddy friends. She even mentioned she might have to come out to San Diego and visit me. One day I got an email from Jim saying Rosie had been in a very bad accident and was in the hospital in critical condition. Seems some hit and run driver smacked her while she was jogging and caused severe head wounds. After some time, she was finally released from the hospital but instead of going back home in Arizona, she went and stayed with her son. She finally came back on line and we were all so happy to hear from her. She asked me for the impossible. She asked me to find a song for her, she did not know the name of it, nor did she know who sang it but it was something about a boy and his dad and growing up. That was it. Well I went to my pinochle lobby of friends and in no time at all was given the name of the song; Cats In The Cradle by Cat Stevens. I downloaded the song and sent it to her and asked her if this was the song she was looking for. You could almost see the tears in her response. It was, indeed, the song and she couldn't thank me enough. Here is what makes me so proud of finding this song for her. Two weeks later they had to rush her back to the hospital and she passed away. Jim told me she had told him how much she loved that song and couldn't thank me enough for finding it for her. Quite obvious why I love this song. This one's for you Rosie.