Fast forward to about 3 years later and what do I stumble upon.....my natuzzi friend! This time at American home in Farmington! Yay, I couldn't believe it! I had almost been able to block her out of my mind when lo and behold, there she sat. So since it was lil ol Farmington and THREE years later I figured that she HAD to be less expensive......Boy was I wrong! Same sad story-excitement followed by depression. I was beginning to think that our relationship was doomed. But, non-the-less I continued to visit her off and on again for another year or so until one day, I was shopping around the discontinued furniture section at American and THERE SHE WAS! For significantly cheaper! This time I was not going to lose her again. She would be mine, oh yes she would be. So, over the course of the next couple of months I scrimped and saved so that I would soon be able to bring her home with me. Back and forth, much deliberation between colors, cash exchanged, and she was mine! My black leather beauty.
Fast forward another year-ish later....Still in love with my wonderful recliner. Still with the plastic on the footrest so as to preserve her condition for as long as possible. Still admiring her slender grace and beauty. .....I'm walking out of the house after a yummy lunch with the husband and I grab up a sales ad for Ashley furniture. Now, keep in mind that Ashley and I have had an ongoing feud ever since she made the crappy product known as my couch so I'm surprised that I was even wanting to thumb through the pages but I figured "what the heck, I need some ideas for couch designs" (only the designs, not the brand) since I am now in the market for a new leather couch. Scanning, scanning, "that's nice, I like that color, ohhh, look at the piece of coral on that table" and what do my wandering eyes do appear?!?! A black beauty impostor!!!!!! Page 9, bottom right hand corner, a filthy cheap, filthy generic, IMPOSTOR! I am so angry there are not even words. I had waited nearly 1/5 of my life for this chair and someone like Ashley's can go and make some cheap duplicate of it and all of San Juan County would soon be able to acquire its likeness! Oh heck no you di' int! This simply brings a tear to my eye on this dreary day in February not because I will love mine less but because others will never be able to appreciate her pure, elegant, unadulterated splendor for what it truly is. People will now only be viewing her as another one of the masses when she is anything but. But don't worry Black beauty, you will always be the real OG. xoxo
p.s..The first chair is like mine, the real thing, except the cousin to the black beauty, the white beauty and the last is the big FAT impostor!