I wrote this little ditty in the 1990’s when I had an Apple computer. I loved my Macintosh with its extremely robotic-sounding synthetic voices that read everything to me and told me what I was typing. It met my needs, or so I thought, until 2005 when I saw my late husband’s Windows computer. But that’s a story you can read in My Ideal Partner: How I Met, Married, and Cared for the Man I Loved Despite Debilitating Odds. But I digress.
Anyway, you’ll recognize this tune as a World War II classic that was performed by The Andrews Sisters. But back in those days, email, the Internet, and Apple computers didn’t exist. So, I thought it necessary to incorporate different words to reflect the times. Enjoy!
Don’t Start Up Your Apple Computer
New! The Red Dress
Copyright July 2019 by DLD Books
When Eve went to her high school senior prom, she wore a red dress that her mother had made for her. That night, after dancing with the boy of her dreams, she caught him in the act with her best friend. Months later, Eve, a freshman in college, is bullied into giving the dress to her roommate. After her mother finds out, their relationship is never the same again.
Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers from dementia, she still remembers, and Eve still harbors the guilt for giving the dress away. When she receives a Facebook friend request from her old college roommate and an invitation to her twenty-five-year high school class reunion, then meets her former best friend by chance, she must confront the past in order to face the future.
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