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 This is interior designer Alexander Doherty. He works in New York and Paris. His apartment is way too full sparkle plenty done up wrong but he is so dreamy Superman handsome he looks A.I.

I am reading a book and it illustrates how hard it is to establish characters. The author is setting up the story with at least ten, maybe as many as fifteen characters he wants the reader - me - to remember/recall. It is quite a task. Hard. In one scene, he describes a beautiful woman listening to live music at night in an Italian courtyard and it reminded me of one of my most memorable lifetime memories. 

A lovely friend one summer night at an outside Joan Armatrading concert along the Hudson. She gets all flushed after she drinks wine - Leslie, not Joan - and while Joan sings her majestic one for the ages song Love and Affection ... when she elongates ... why can't I feel  l-o-o-o-v-v-v-v-v-ve-e, my friend raises both her arms and sings the word, too. She personified ecstasy.