Now, when she sees them with it, "it makes me sentimental remembering the happiness of that day and why we did it in the first place".
Even Mr. Trow, whose views on Starrett City are notoriously cranky, sounded sentimental, remembering the fresh flowers in the lobby when he moved in 33 years ago.
His set switched between lovingly sentimental ballads — remember "You Decorated My Life"?
The ensemble's concerts clearly have an element of the sentimental — "I remember when he played the cello in his diapers" was a representative overheard comment — but the quality of the playing is excellent.
This small, sentimental "I remember" yarn, laced with vicious jolts, is a relocated "Bronx Tale" grounded in the same old macho shtick: friendship and undying loyalty among pals of dubious character who have shared harrowing rites of passage.
The point of the song is that even in the most degraded of situations, people can find redemption in love, and if that makes the song sentimental (and remember it's called a fairytale) it is also the reason why it still moves people every December.
"So many of Veronica's stories were coarse and sentimental," Alison remembers.
Years later you might feel slightly sentimental about this and remember the duty with a certain nostalgic fondness.
They can lose or break their store-bought gifts, but tend to be more careful with the sentimental things; they also remember who the gift was from.
Then, pulling out a black-and-white photo of a 20-something Mr. Erskine, her friend, Ms. Yohe, turned sentimental as she remembered the day the team announced it was leaving.
