Where did that come from?
a few nights ago I went to concert, full of surprises.
Within the last year I have beceome friends with the one and only Charity Sunshine Tillman-Dick, yes that is her full name, by which she produly introduces herself. No, she has no DSMIV charachteristics except maybe the mania side of happiness at times. I have met some of Charity Sunshine's family, her sisters Liberty and StarFlower and brother Zen. There are five more children in the family with, undoubtly, just as colorful names. Charity Sunshine is just about the most happy, cheerful, friendly person you will ever meet. Her sweet round face is almost taken over by her smile and her eyes light up like Christmas morning when she sees you (or my roommate Devin) and then it begins "What a faaabulous outfit, I loove that vest, it's so sophisticted, I hope you don't mind that I called it an outfit, most men don't like to wear outfits, they think that only four-year old girls wear outfits, but I find that you really look much better when you wear an outfit rather than just some clothes, ensambles are great as well, yee haw, yee haw, yee haw, that's my new saying, you have to say it three times, yee-haw, yee-haw, yee-haw! my friends think it is so funny that I'm from colorado, they say, 'Charity Sunshine, I can just picture you riding arround on a horse, in coyboy boots saying yee-haw, yee- haw, yee-haw' Of course they don't know that I've never been arround a horse in my life, but I just love it! Yee-haw, yee-haw, yee-haw!" and that is your first meeting with Charity Sunshine.
Now, I've left out exactly how I know Charity Sunshine. She moved into my ward earlier this summer, fresh from studying in Budapest (the best is when she impersonates her lavish, flamboyant Hungarian friends, now Ula dance!) when she moved to Baltimore to study opera at the Peabody Institute. Yes Charity Sunshine sings opera. Now I have heard Charity sing on multiple occasions, mostly in my home, durring a party, late in the night when everone is lounging and quietied down, someone will start the plea "Charity Sunshine, sing us a song?" She always protests, a regular song? Most people don't like opera, it's very loud and this room is small, my voice teacher scolds me for singing for common people "they will think that you have a beautiful voice, because they can not tell the difference" But she always gives in, and we stare dumbfounded as if an angle has desceneded among us, never hearing sounds so beautiful. The songs are short and fleeting, and she quickly slips back into Charity-speak and you wounder if for a moment you were dreaming?
Now Charity Sunshine is graduating and we are all invited to her diploma concert, to really hear her sing, in a large autotorium, with accompanyment and a song selection that will display her full vocal range. Every seat in the room was full as she glided out in her pistachio green silk gown, her hair, usually rivaling mine in unrulyness, swept back into a perfectly coifed bun, standing alone on the stage next to a grand paino. And then she sang, sounds so perfect and clear, notes rising and soaring. The whole hall sat mezmerized. For an hour I was taken away, out of the autotorium, far away from Balitmore. Not until she took her last bow, and stepped off the stage was I brought back to realize the beautiful, elegant soprano was my dear friend; Charity Sunshine Tillman-Dick. Yee-haw, yee-haw, yee-haw.
Leaving that night I got another surprise; a big cement pillar I forgot was at the end of my parking space, unitl it defiantly ripped off my side mirror. Hmm, good thing I worked overtime last week.
Within the last year I have beceome friends with the one and only Charity Sunshine Tillman-Dick, yes that is her full name, by which she produly introduces herself. No, she has no DSMIV charachteristics except maybe the mania side of happiness at times. I have met some of Charity Sunshine's family, her sisters Liberty and StarFlower and brother Zen. There are five more children in the family with, undoubtly, just as colorful names. Charity Sunshine is just about the most happy, cheerful, friendly person you will ever meet. Her sweet round face is almost taken over by her smile and her eyes light up like Christmas morning when she sees you (or my roommate Devin) and then it begins "What a faaabulous outfit, I loove that vest, it's so sophisticted, I hope you don't mind that I called it an outfit, most men don't like to wear outfits, they think that only four-year old girls wear outfits, but I find that you really look much better when you wear an outfit rather than just some clothes, ensambles are great as well, yee haw, yee haw, yee haw, that's my new saying, you have to say it three times, yee-haw, yee-haw, yee-haw! my friends think it is so funny that I'm from colorado, they say, 'Charity Sunshine, I can just picture you riding arround on a horse, in coyboy boots saying yee-haw, yee- haw, yee-haw' Of course they don't know that I've never been arround a horse in my life, but I just love it! Yee-haw, yee-haw, yee-haw!" and that is your first meeting with Charity Sunshine.
Now, I've left out exactly how I know Charity Sunshine. She moved into my ward earlier this summer, fresh from studying in Budapest (the best is when she impersonates her lavish, flamboyant Hungarian friends, now Ula dance!) when she moved to Baltimore to study opera at the Peabody Institute. Yes Charity Sunshine sings opera. Now I have heard Charity sing on multiple occasions, mostly in my home, durring a party, late in the night when everone is lounging and quietied down, someone will start the plea "Charity Sunshine, sing us a song?" She always protests, a regular song? Most people don't like opera, it's very loud and this room is small, my voice teacher scolds me for singing for common people "they will think that you have a beautiful voice, because they can not tell the difference" But she always gives in, and we stare dumbfounded as if an angle has desceneded among us, never hearing sounds so beautiful. The songs are short and fleeting, and she quickly slips back into Charity-speak and you wounder if for a moment you were dreaming?
Now Charity Sunshine is graduating and we are all invited to her diploma concert, to really hear her sing, in a large autotorium, with accompanyment and a song selection that will display her full vocal range. Every seat in the room was full as she glided out in her pistachio green silk gown, her hair, usually rivaling mine in unrulyness, swept back into a perfectly coifed bun, standing alone on the stage next to a grand paino. And then she sang, sounds so perfect and clear, notes rising and soaring. The whole hall sat mezmerized. For an hour I was taken away, out of the autotorium, far away from Balitmore. Not until she took her last bow, and stepped off the stage was I brought back to realize the beautiful, elegant soprano was my dear friend; Charity Sunshine Tillman-Dick. Yee-haw, yee-haw, yee-haw.
Leaving that night I got another surprise; a big cement pillar I forgot was at the end of my parking space, unitl it defiantly ripped off my side mirror. Hmm, good thing I worked overtime last week.
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