Our bond felt like a description I once read in an online recipe: “a puff pastry in delicious light and flaky layers, repeatedly folded and rolled over – never mashed.” It took a certain destiny to have such a flow (eventually, I learned to trust and never interfere with the destination of the flow). When referring to his adopted and natural brood, Brad Pitt once said: “your children will find you.” Let me add your great friends, lovers, and husbands will find you too. Just take their hands when they come for you. And I took Judy and Tracy’s and went along for the ride of a lifetime.
I do not remember how or when we met. We did, though, share a common connection: Tracy's husband and my soon-to-be-ex-husband were sons of the partners in a multimillion dollar aviation overhaul company, where Judy had once been a bookkeeper. When I was married, Judy deducted a biweekly stipend of $20 from my ex-husband’s pay check, an amount he never noticed. She did the same from Tracy’s husband’s payroll check. This savings went towards our one -day visits, every three months, to the Spa at Doral, the site of the golf classic and Roman/Greco world-famous spa - a “palace of pleasure” with waterfalls, Greeks statues, and marble baths. There, we spent Saturdays running around naked in steam rooms, saunas, Turkish hamams, whirlpools, and cold dips. Occasionally, we covered up in luxurious white terry-cloth robes. For lunch, we ate morsel of delicious Spa foods garnished with berries and nuts; drank citrusy water with orange and lemon peels to cleanse the system. Got massaged, wrapped, dipped and washed in oils and lotions. And talked, talked and talked. Talking was our religion. We talked about, men, sex, food, fashion, travel, books, movies, politics, astrology…. We talked until we were exhausted. Then we started whole new conversations.
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