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I thought I’d written about this kind of experience before...

After the Thomas Dolby show Saturday (more on the show itself in another entry), I was standing right by the door and a woman stopped and told me, “God bless you.” I was startled and momentarily withdrew, then just said, “thank you.” By the time the thought “what for?” began to travel towards my mouth, she was gone. Had I helped her once with something? When Thomas had mentioned from the stage that I had created some of the infrastructure his live rig is built on, and was in the audience, had he pointed me out? Then, too, I’d retreated inward; I don’t know what happened in those few seconds. Or had I just smiled at her? I’ll probably never know.

A few minutes later, a guy who’d been looking at me as if he wanted to say something also stopped and spoke to me as he left—"thank you Mr. Wyatt.” This time, I was quicker on my feet and asked him his name. He worked for Korg R & D in Milpitas, with one of my former Opcode colleagues, and is on some of the same mailing lists as I.

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