His Plump Mate
“I’m just frustrated with my father. He has been trying to force this marriage alliance and I’m kind of fed up with it.”
I know that isn’t the whole story, but I decided not to push it. Instead, I try to lighten the mood.
“You have a beautiful voice. What was the song about?” I asked.
She closed her eyes, and when she reopened them, she gave me a faint smile and started explaining, “It’s an old love song. It’s about trying to explain when a person falls in love. How he fell in love. The first lyric is ‘I don’t know how to tell you when it happened, I can’t explain how it happened, but I fell in love with you.’