Back in college, Larry Carson played drums in a friend’s band and fell in love with the lead singer, Geoffrey Mason. But all that’s in the past. Larry’s now thirty-five, divorced, and father to a precocious thirteen-year-old daughter. One day, when Larry picks Crystal up from school, a song comes on the radio by a new rockstar climbing the charts. Larry recognizes Geoff’s voice immediately, though Crystal calls him Geo and claims he’s the hottest new singer on the scene. Just hearing him brings back a flood of memories, reopening wounds Larry thought long healed. The more he listens to Geo’s music, the more Larry falls in love with his former boyfriend all over again. Partly to prove to his daughter that he used to know Geo back in the day, and partly to reconnect with his old friend, Larry buys tickets to an upcoming concert and manages to score backstage passes. But there was a reason Larry and Geoff lost touch -- and stayed out of touch for so long. Will Geo even want to see Larry again after all this time? Or will the magic of their old familiar song bring about a harmonious duet?

Old Familiar Song

Larry’s roommate was older than he was, a friend he knew from high school who’d graduated a year earlier and rented a place off-campus, so Larry didn’t have to stay in the freshman dorms. He roomed with Doug; the two of them had the entire attic of a three-story home all to themselves. The second floor belonged to a quartet of sorority sisters Doug flirted with shamelessly, and the first floor was a common area shared by them all. Living room, dining room, kitchen, laundry. It took Larry a few days to get used to the idea of wandering downstairs in the morning to find a couple of girls by the sink, wearing barely-there nighties and sipping coffee. The first time it happened, he blushed deeply and apologized as he backed out of the kitchen, their giggles following him down the hall.


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