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For three years I've played in a community band that performs every Monday evening throughout the summer in a town 20 miles down the interstate. The summer before last out of the blue S showed up to play with the group one Monday in July. My breath caught when I saw him joining me up on stage. I didn't even have time to wonder what I should do about it afterward--he approached me as soon as the concert was over to say he was wanting to join the band, and to ask if we could carpool to rehearsals and concerts. Of course we could carpool.