Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Diane and Whoopie Meet the Beatles

 

            “You just missed them!”

            “Who?”

            “The Beatles!”

            “Where?”

            “Right here! I told them you were coming, but they had to leave.”

            Ten-year old Diane Kopchinski of Astoria, New York knew it couldn’t be true, but played

along anyway like a suspicious but still gullible victim on Candid Camera. Ever since seeing the

Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show two years earlier, she dreamed of seeing them live in person.

And, knowing her much older cousin Davey was a practical joker didn’t discourage her. Neither

did it stop Aunt Maggie from chiming in “They better not set foot in this house with their dil-

tee long hair!”


Steven L. Thomaschek


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