undeterred by the activity around her there, she wrote. tuned out the unfamiliar songs…but then the familiar tunes drifted to her and broke her concentration. those familiar songs grated the space where a warm love song acquires the cold indifference of a bad association.

Killing Me Softly, If This World Were Mine, If I were Your Woman, Overjoyed, Where is The Love, Ribbon in the Sky, The Closer I Get To You, Ain’t No Sunshine