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I got one thing that stood out to me about our date the previous day.  She liked Neil Diamond, the singer and performer.  I didn’t exactly like Neil Diamond.  After all, Neil was a pop artist.  Most of his songs had two maybe three chords.  His songs were like sing-alongs, but she really liked him and his music.  You probably already know what now I am about to write about don’t you.  Have I given it all away, by all I have unveiled to you the reader about my emerging new life with Tammy?  This talk about a woman I had met online from an online dating site like E Harmony.  How we got to know each other via our computers and then more by our cell phones and finally meeting in a state park to have a picnic lunch, driving around the loop of this state park, seeing the sites, having dinner.  I was hooked, hook line and sinker.  It is almost laughable, though cute how writing this down from memory makes me feel.  It was like it was just yesterday that my love affair with “Tamm” as I call her all started.  From writing this manuscript I started calling it “the process”.  It has been all that, about the process.  How things work out of the “ashes of despair”, from the most hurting places any human can go, remembering and re-telling those stories of all out desolation and dejection.  From great victories to unimaginable despondency.  All I can say is Thank you…JESUS…How much God the Father really really, really loves us.  It is unimaginable, His omnipotent, His omniscient and His omnipresent face always wants our best, always watching, always willing to show us the true way however always the gentleman not wanting to control us.  No puppets in the kingdom I say.  He always has a “New Day” in store for each of us.  I was again feeling the feelings of love but back to the story I was telling…Against my more acute knowledgeable, sensible music training and understanding of music I did something I can look back on and say for certain.  I was in love.  I still am with that woman but more later about that.  I did something I know was for love…I purchased tickets to see a concert by you know who, that singer, songwriter, performer, Neil Diamond.  Two tickets to be exact to take my now girlfriend Tammy to see the man, the myth the legend…Neil Diamond at the Key Arena in Seattle on a weeknight.  i took half a day off work to be able to drive all the way down to Kelso where Tammy lived in her own home, pick her up, our second date and drive back up to Seattle, get some dinner somewhere quick and then go to the concert because she liked Neil Diamond.  I dropped her off at the curb in front of Key Arena, parked the car and met up with her at the front door as I had the tickets in my pocket.  We walked in and immediately I had to get her a program, a program about you know who, Neil Diamond and the world tour he was on.  We got in and found our seats, way up in the nosebleed section or third deck of Key Arena.  Do not look at me, it was all they had left… Good thing that they had a great big screen above the stage.  I don’t remember which of Neil’s hits the band started the concert with, but it was like most concerts in big arena auditoriums, loud and in your face.  Of course, I was not necessarily watching him but his band mates.  I was watching the bass player first, then the drummer, on to the horn section, the guitar player, the keyboard player back to the drummer. “Wait a minute I said out loud, I know that guy…that is Ron Tutt.  He played with Elvis.  I saw him play at our church in Arcadia one Saturday night with a famous artist in the Christian music scene, Benny Hester.  I know that guy.  I met him at our church shouting this to Tammy over the volume of the music.  If someone would have been watching, videoing capturing this moment on their smart phone by now they would have been roaring with laughter.  It must have been quite a site.  Me with my new girlfriend at a Neil Diamond concert.  What a hoot…Now I knew someone whose playing prowess I admired who was on tour, on stage playing Neil Diamond songs.  It was right then that I realized.  I like Neil Diamond.  I say all of this in jest, laughing at myself out loud as I remember back.  After the concert we jumped in the car and I drove Tammy back home, turned around and got back to my house around 1:00AM.  6:00AM came fast.  I think I slept thru the day, but boy did we have fun.  One of many dates.  Neil Diamond was now my new best friend…LOL

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