Neil Diamond was Sandi's absolute favorite musician. She loved him and the music. Even when she was at her sickest coming home from the hospital, one of his songs would briefly perk her up. Then there was the time several years ago when she was crocheting with music playing in her hospital room. Pretty soon all the nurses on the floor were in her room singing along with her to "Sweet, Caroline" as one changed her chemo bags.
Every couple of years when Neil Diamond would be in town for a concert, we talked about trying to work things out to see him in concert. Things never worked out financially. In the last year when news of the tour came and his stop here, we again talked about doing something as fincially we could have pulled it off. As the date came closer, it was clear that even if we had rented alimo to try and get her tehre as easily as possible, she was far too weak to go.
We never made it to his concert. Obviously, we never will now. News that Neil Diamond is having to retire from touring due to Parkinson's is very upsetting and another symbol of how things have changed.
I will you my only Neil Diamond memory. I was living in a dorm at I.U. and we were having a meeting for our floor. All girls. One of them asked are you really dating him? The dorm leader said yes, it was no big thing. Others saw him meet for her dates but I never did. Sigh,
ReplyDeleteSandi knew a dorm monitor that said the same thing. Supposedly, she was witnessed getting into his car on a couple of occasions.
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