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Thanks Graham for posting this faded glory themed pic to #LuxvilleTales. Here is your story.

NO LAST TIME TO DANCE.

Three were grouped around a table. The long cloth hid tapping feet beneath.

“Dance?” she asked.

“Dance.” she concurred.

“Dance!” she demanded.

On the dance floor they circled him. Twirled him until the mirror ball reflections on their matching satin gloves put him inside a merry go round.

Eyes closed, chin raised, heart rising, he danced. His feet barely brushed the shiny parquetry. A whirlwind of long swishy frocks, heady perfume, women’s laughter. A circle of Aunties. A various of pink lipsticks.

A long life of dancing followed. The memory breathed every single time he took to the dance floor. Then teenaging. They dance. Then Miriam. They danced. Then the kids. They danced.

Each year though, a little less. He wondered if Miriam knew the last time they danced was the last time.

Graham made an annual booking to dance. In between there was weekly training, monthly rehearsals, and the annual flight to Singapore for a two week grand finale.

The Aunties would have been awfully proud.

LUXVILLE TALES with TALE BY Erin McCuskey and IMAGE BY Graeme.

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POST SCRIPT from Graham:

Great ideas and imagination, like the spindle legs of a spider we should all dance it makes you/us smile and laugh and feel that rhythm of life! Here is a fair dink-um pic on the busy dance floor in Singapore, the face book page of St Andrews dance society Singapore 2016/15 has much more of the “Pomp & Ceremony” that is so beautifully Scottish but with a wonderful blended audience of the modern world.

They have been dancing since 1836! 180yrs in Singapore!

I do not know how to put this into your files, so be free.  Perhaps we could run a “Barn Dance” at the BMI for all Lux-villers. Would love to arrange, the last Ballarat art gallery’s Greek and Scottish nights were a hoot, challenge for 2017?

weeel done; cheers
 Graham

The challenge is ON my friend. Thank you!