For some reason I remember my ex-in laws first computer better than my own. Maybe because they had one first. It seemed a very hip thing to do back then, own a personal computer.
There’s was set up on a brand new desk they had bought, solely for the computer, in the spare room. The spare room had French doors to the backyard and so it was full of light.
I don’t recall why we spent time in there with them and the computer. But I do remember vividly that Bella-Lena had already been born, although just, and my mother in law would download lots of music. She and Bella-Lena would dance.
The song they played and danced to over and over was the Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow duet Picture. You couldn’t get away from that song in 2001 and 2002. Although it was never a favourite of mine, way too sappy.
To this day whenever I hear that song, I’m taken back to that sunny room, the lady I called Mom, dancing with my firstborn in her arms, thanks to that computer.
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