My Mom will randomly think of a song and she will start humming it and ask if I know what song she’s thinking of. She did that today and I knew it right off and I told her, “Just Another Day” Jon Secada:
I immediately began singing along, because I knew all of the words. I was taken back to summertime between fifth and sixth grade or something like that with my friend, Natalie, we would walk to New Yasmeen Bakery to get cheese pies and we would sing that song!
As we drove to get our haircut today, I was thinking about that, and I could vividly see her neighborhood back then! When we got to get our haircut, while Christina was waxing, my eyebrows, this song came on:
That was another jam we used to listen to in her room! I remember that we would talk on the phone all the time for hours back then and when she would call my house, my brother, Ray, would answer the phone and he would call her, “Natalie Guchara” and would not let her talk to me until she told him that she was “Natalie Guchara.”
I haven’t thought about that in years!!! but to hear two songs today, that explicitly remind me of my friend, Natalie, “Natalie Guchara” was a very fond memory!!!