image via a pairofpears.com University of Baltimore MFA student Ellen Hartley found her truest love affair in a most unexpected way — through an equally emotional loss. It began with a phone call. Ellen, I’ve got dreadful news. Helen died yesterday. It was Myra, the sister of my best friend from music camp 40 years earlier. I didn’t even know she’d been sick; over the years we’d lost touch. I knew only that she lived on Long Island and had four children. I was shocked and angry I hadn’t gotten to say goodbye. At camp Helen (nee Manheim, we called her Mannie) and I had been inseparable, both short and chunky, both flutists, both terrible tennis players. Mannie lived in Manhattan, went to exotic-sounding Music and Art High School, I was from DC and wished I could go to Music and Art. In 1966, I went to her wedding; she married a nice looking… Read More
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