“Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.”
Tennessee Williams
It was Sunday, October 26, 1975, and I was at the reception of my Father’s marriage to his second and current wife, Lois, at the historic Hotel Elysée on East 54th Street in Manhattan. My date was a delightfully sweet and very pretty fifteen-year-old girl, Kathy Moyer from New Castle, Delaware.
I met Kathy earlier that summer while camping at the North Lake campsites in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. After forty-plus years, we recently got reacquainted through a couple of long and wonderful phone conversations. All these years later, I still found her to be an amiable and lovely woman.
The wedding reception was a splendid affair, and it was great to see all my family together in one place to celebrate my Father’s marriage (my Father remained married to Lois for over forty-three years, until he passed away at ninety-two on November 16, 2018).
I was sitting with Kathy at our table when I noticed a somewhat short man prance right in to the reception as if he owned the place. He headed straight up to the bar on the far end of the room. I had the feeling I knew who this man was, but I couldn’t place him right away. Truman Capote came to mind, but I said no. So, I kept asking myself, who was this man? Then I had an insight, he looked similar to the great playwright, Tennessee Williams, but I still wasn’t sure.
I had to know, so I excused myself from Kathy and the others at the table and walked up to him at the bar. By the time I reached him, he already had a drink in his hand, and it was almost finished. I said hello, my name is Mark, and this is my Father’s wedding celebration. I then audaciously and bluntly asked him, are you a wedding crasher? In a Southern drawl accentuated by alcohol and mixed with a more than a bit of defiant indignation at my bold assertion, he retorted, I lived at the Hotel Elysée.
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