I Really Really Really Want to be Someone's Guest at the University Club in St. Paul, MN

So much for subtlety, but have you seen this place and felt the history?  Oh my goodness, the deal-making and romances that must have gone on in these rooms.

  My friend Melanie, and I, had the opportunity to tour the University Club on Summit Avenue one hot afternoon, recently.  By the time we got there, my clothes were sticking to me and my bangs were plastered to my forehead, so I was feeling somewhat less than glamorous, but once I started looking around, I almost forgot who I was.

For just a moment, I was a confidante of  F. Scott and Zelda's.  Better yet, I was a fellow writer, a flapper looking for a good time.  I even smoked cigarettes.

I was there, alright.  But I'm not sure which decade Melanie was in.   It really doesn't matter, though, because, as with any truly good friend, she gets me.