Word: victrolas
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...night before we'd go to sleep ... we had an old Victrola. Jack liked to play some records. His back hurt...
...floor was so cold. I'd get out of bed at night and play it for him, when it was so cold getting out of bed ... on a Victrola ten years old-and the song he loved most came at the very end of this record, the last side of Camelot, sad Camelot: ... 'Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot...
...entered the dimly-lit room, a half-spent stump of a cigarette dangling from my lips. I couldn't discern the contents of the room, beyond the mere outlines of a victrola in a far, far corner. The music was mournful--Billy Joel was singing about a lonely old man playing his lonely organ...
Suddenly, the victrola began creeping toward me. Slowly, imperceptibly, and increasing in velocity as it made its way inexorably across the room...
...never saw her after that, but I'll never forget that walnut little victrola. (P.S.--I am now the happily married father of a clock radio...