ASR – January

Miss
Molly invites everybody to hush while she demonstrates the spoon
miracle
Miss
Molly’s exclusive healing session
9.1.06 – I was excited – even
more excited than I’d been when Billy Graham’s Crusade came
to Christchurch back in the early ’60s. (Or was that the late
’50s?) Anyway, the internationally renowned child spiritualist
Miss Molly was having a healing session at the Groove Train
in South Melbourne for one lunchtime only and I had a ticket!
The only drawback was that it
was for women only, but
I was prepared to do anything just to be in the same room as
this famously reclusive prodigy, so I bought a lady’s suit that
had seen better days from the local opp shop and slipped in
to the Groove Train without arousing suspicion.
What followed was the most blissful hour I have ever spent in
my life. Miss Molly had all of us girls on a string. She raised
her famous eyebrow to peels of knowing laughter, and she shared
the odd bon mot with all of us as she toured the entire
length of the table on her surprise tours of inspection. She
dropped her spoon – and it miraculously reappeared without her
saying a word! (She did this several times). Amazingly, we all
understood exactly what she meant without her uttering a single
recognisable syllable.
And then, all too soon, the session was over and the girls and
I were out on Clarendon St blinking in the harsh afternoon light,
and, I fancy, brushing away the odd tear. We all felt the better
for the session and we all agreed that we’d be the first to
attend the next session whenever Miss Molly chooses to come
our way again.