Vienna is a place whose charms have grown on me.
As a child traveling around Western Europe with her parents, it was, as I recall, the place we had spaghetti with sugar (can this be right?).
Growing up, the fabled Austrian city was the setting of the Trapp Family Singers escape from under the very eyes of the Nazis.
As a young adult, I loved the romantic aura of the city where Sigmund Freud met Sherlock Holmes in the "Seven-Percent-Solution."
But it wasn't until I saw the city as two young lovers roamed around it in "Before Sunrise" that its glories really came to life for me.
I loved the way that they talked...and talked...and talked some more, the cafe's and the churches and the bridges over the Danube a backdrop for their journey of self-discovery.
I don't usually think of the Austrians as a romantic race (ok, I'll give you Gustav Klimt), but that movie gave me a whole new view of the town.
So sometimes I wonder...with whom would I like to wander around Vienna -- if I can't get Ethan Hawke to take me?
With whom would I drink hot chocolate with whipped cream...or just skip the hot chocolate?
With whom would I abandon the superego, at least temporarily, and admit Freud was right about that naughty id?
I have a few ideas.
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