Sapori D'Italia - Welcome Home

Oh how I have missed you here in Mill Hill - yes there were others, but they were never like you, how could there be - you were always my favourite. Then suddenly you were gone. Just like that - what was I supposed to do? I had no choice but to fulfil my needs elsewhere. Of course I felt like I was betraying you.....after years of faithfulness, never straying, always being true.....but a girl like me has certain needs! As soon as I heard you were coming home I started to wean myself off those that had been your stand-ins. Each day I looked for you, watching for any sign, waiting to see when and how. I knew where you would be....you would be where you had always been....I knew you would go back to the place that it had all begun. And then just as the summer finally arrived I saw you. I was parked across the road, you were there, right where I said you would be. Waiting. You looked so proud, so handsome, all dressed up and so welcoming. How could I resist you.........? I crossed the road, my heart beating so fast I could feel it jumping in my chest. I could smell you, I could almost taste you. Just two more steps and then I would be there ......my mouth was dry but turning towards the face behind the glistening bar I managed to make the words come out. "Welcome back Sapori D'Italia, Mill Hill has missed you! I'll have a large Cappuccino please."