Make Believe I Love You

She is always singing to herself. Walking across campus, washing dishes, folding laundry, driving the car. She doesn't hum: she listens to the lyrics. It isn't rock, however, or country, or any of the music that she curls up to in her living room. songs come straight from her past: Frank Sinatra, Tony Martin, and Ella Fitzgerald sang them in the fifties. were written by Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin; they orchestrate her fantasy world. Falling in love with love is falling for make believe, she sings as she climbs the stairs to her office; We could make believe I love you, pouring the liquid detergent; They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say; The world will always welcome lovers, as time goes by; The Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble, they're only made of clay; but, our love is here to stay. Hours of her life, at thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen were spent on the rug in front of the phonograph in a corner of the living room, listening to her mother's records; but only when her mother wasn't home to hear. Especially the love ballads of Sinatra and Tony Martin, who were her mother's favorites. She couldn't let it be known that she liked

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