The Night We Met
This is the selfie we took that night.
Loved that phone!
Of course we both have rather different versions of this. Just know that my version is more truthful..honest...accurate etc ;-) Oh, this is Tori, by the way...
So our mutual friend Marlene (though we did not know at the time that we knew each other) decides to throw a neighborhood soiree to meet and greet her new (and apparently gay) tennis partner Victoria. She called to ask if I, Tori, could bring any gay friends along. I was intrigued. Of course I knew gay friends, but who was this person and why etc? My neighbor gushed as if star-struck - She is Victoria and spends part of the time living in New York and part of the time here in California… (hmmmm!) She is a jazz singer too and sings in a little cafe in town. Her TV job means that she can do the bi-coastal thing… ‘Bi-coastal’ I ask? (To be honest, as a Brit, I had never heard the word bi-coastal and it kind of annoyed me!)
In my busy little head I was trying to get this straight. She spends half the year working on the East Coast and half playing on the West Coast?
Who the hell can have this life? I sort of hated her - this Victoria - at that moment. Here was a person who shared my name which is cheeky enough in of itself and then she kind of has the life and job I always dreamed about! Add to that, she is a bloody jazz singer and...she can play tennis! Seriously?
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When Victoria Met Victoria