New Orleans & The Twighlight Shop
Living on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi meant being an hour and a half's drive from New Orleans, Louisianna (NOLA). Having friends and interests there, making weekly trips to the City of Spirits was nothing out of the ordinary. But what was so extraordinary was our first visit? Well, it was our second visit, really, that this tale is about. Truthfully, few ever see all of New Orleans in one visit, and you'll be lucky (unless you live there) to see it all in within a year or two of making weekly trips. But for us, the first time was one of the best, and one of the most memorable. Well, again... it was our second.
Our first trip we saw just about everything any first-time visitor would see, maybe more. But there was one shop we found of particular interest. Let's just say it had everything a vampire could want (no, we're not vampires). Clothes, makeup, perfume, and even a full-size wooden casket (black, of course) that was, of all things, a CD rack. The employees were as fantastical as the merchandise, I might add. Anyway, without giving a complete inventory...it was a shop worthy of an Anne Rice novel.
Now, it was late evening, sunset to be exact, and we had to leave. We made sure we knew where the shop was so we could go again, then left for home. A week later we returned and went immediately looking for this shop. We arrived early in the morning and combed the streets to exhaustion for this shop...and didn't find it. No one could tell us where it was because, oddly, we'd forgotten the name.
We gave up looking... until sunset, just before we were to leave for home, and searched again. Within minutes we found it. Right there in front of our eyes, a store we had to have passed a dozen times that morning.
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Living on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi meant being an hour and a half's drive from New Orleans, Louisianna (NOLA). Having friends and interests there, making weekly trips to the City of Spirits was nothing out of the ordinary. But what was so extraordinary was our first visit? Well, it was our second visit, really, that this tale is about. Truthfully, few ever see all of New Orleans in one visit, and you'll be lucky (unless you live there) to see it all in within a year or two of making weekly trips. But for us, the first time was one of the best, and one of the most memorable. Well, again... it was our second.
Our first trip we saw just about everything any first-time visitor would see, maybe more. But there was one shop we found of particular interest. Let's just say it had everything a vampire could want (no, we're not vampires). Clothes, makeup, perfume, and even a full-size wooden casket (black, of course) that was, of all things, a CD rack. The employees were as fantastical as the merchandise, I might add. Anyway, without giving a complete inventory...it was a shop worthy of an Anne Rice novel.
Now, it was late evening, sunset to be exact, and we had to leave. We made sure we knew where the shop was so we could go again, then left for home. A week later we returned and went immediately looking for this shop. We arrived early in the morning and combed the streets to exhaustion for this shop...and didn't find it. No one could tell us where it was because, oddly, we'd forgotten the name.
We gave up looking... until sunset, just before we were to leave for home, and searched again. Within minutes we found it. Right there in front of our eyes, a store we had to have passed a dozen times that morning.
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This same phenomenon happened again and again in the following weeks. Eventually, we began referring to this shop as "The one you can't find until dark."
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