Celebrating 6 years of friendship: A Jersey Boy and That Woman from that Neighborhood

As a blog post, this celebration is a day late, but I celebrated yesterday on my other social media outlets. October 13th, 2014, was the evening that I met my dear friend John Lloyd Young. That was a night that I will never forget.

I’ll always remember the music for Can’t Take My Eyes off of You Starting and wondering where John was because we could hear him, but he was nowhere to be seen. All of a sudden, my mom elbows me and says

Turn around. He’s right behind you!

And he was looking right at me.  During the show he came out into the audience singing, Hey There Lonely Girl, and tried to hold my hand.  I wouldn’t let him. 
     At the end of the night, I asked for a hug, and he said,

How could I say no

And hugged me.  Little did we know that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. 

      I’ve had the pleasure of seeing and cheering on my handsome and talented friend 36 times.  The majority of those meetings taking place at Sterlings Upstairs at the Federal in North Hollywood and the rest of our time together has been at Feinstein’s at Vitello’s in Studio City.
Below are some of my favorite memories of us.