Ava Gardner looking like Carmen in Seville, Spain, 1950
Have you ever had a song, or usually a song scrap, play over and over in your head all day long? You hum or sing the bit that you remember, trying to remember the rest while simultaneously wishing it would go away? The earworm – what a yucky word! – in my head the other day was the Toreador Song from the opera, Carmen, because it was the last song I heard as I was driving to my mother’s. – Maria
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