Music in the key of time

I said, “I need time to think about a few things.”
“Julie?”
Richard had listened to Mom’s request to watch over me. “Yeah - and about whether I’ll be able to live my life without her.”
Telling him that I would come down shortly, he exited the dome car, and my thoughts returned to Julie.
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After putting the pizza on the dresser, she came to me quickly and embraced me with a passion I had not seen in her before. Her lips seemed fuller and more sensuous and her breathing had become quite rapid. Our tongues met, and it soon felt like two puppeteers were fighting each other inside our joined mouths. She moaned softly. Suddenly she pulling away from me, said, “I want you. I want you so very much. Undress me - just like he did in ‘A Summer Place.’”
I was on fire! She undid her ponytail, and her long brown hair fell like a veil over her shoulders. Patiently and tenderly, I undressed her – savoring every moment as one garment after another fell to the floor. After I removed the final item of clothing, we embraced for a long time. Separately from her, I was ill-prepared for the raw emotions that came quickly over me. She anticipated my hesitation and smiled, “Now, it’s my turn.”
She worked her magic, and a few moments later, she pulled back the covers, and we lay down on the bed. After several embarrassing starts and stops, we finally were fulfilled. Lying beside her later in the darkness, we told each other things that we would never imagined revealing to another living person. I held her close to me until she fell asleep in my arms. At that moment, I truly believed I would love her for the rest my life. Sleep finally took me the rest of the way to morning. We never ate the pizza that night.
I awoke in the sunlit room with Julie sle...

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...ore ice cream cone with her baby boy before I left home. Ten days later, I found myself on the railway platform in Silver Spring awaiting the arrival of the Capitol Limited.
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Somewhere in the middle of Indiana, I finally fell asleep. At about seven o’clock, Richard found me cuddled up in the dome car. He woke me up, and after I shaved and washed my face, we went to the dining car for a quick snack before departing the train. The trip had taken longer than I had planned. Not only had I journeyed the six-hundred miles from Bethesda to Chicago, I also completed a journey from October 1964 to September 1965. Around nine o’clock, the train began slowing down. Looking outside my window, I saw a huge city surrounding me. It was a beautiful sunny day. As the train arrived at Union Station, our trip was now over halfway finished. We would arrive in Omaha about midnight.