SHAZAM!

THAT VELVETY VOICE!

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There I was 

     at a City of Albuquerque

              awards banquet

and wishing I was instead, off

     somewhere on a quiet 

lake fishing and sipping a Diet Pepsi!

Donna and her partners had won

     a big prestigious city-wide award

for excellence in teaching of the arts...

And guess who was there to emcee

     the presentations...

Yes! M. R. walked up to the microphone

     to name the winners from a dozen 

  categories and hand out the awards...

Oh, I had heard her 

     fantastically-marvelous-melodious 

          voice a thousand

 mornings on Classical Music FM 97.3---

       a low, sultry, never-to-be-forgotten....

beautiful sound!

So really...this was even better than  

     fishing!

On this night, she walked to the mike

     and began speaking...ah...she 

talked with an almost-Texas drawl...

     sorta like me...

As I listened, befuddled and crushed in 

   spirit, and wondering what had

happened, I heard her say:

"Maybe it'd be fitting if on this night,

    on this august occasion---that I speak

in my Radio FM voice!"

And as if she had said "SHAZAM," she 

    went into  this astoundingly low

soothing,  sexy, to-die-for-voice, filling

     the whole room with overtones...

   and amazement.

A few hundred male jaws dropped open...

I thought the microphone would melt...

     and I know my heart did.

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By Mil

21 APRIL 17