And he hadn’t; at least not really. They’d known each other; they’d shared a smile and a laugh when they’d seen each other. They’d talked and had lunch together once or twice. They’d spoken a little more than usual in the weeks before he’d left for University, but that was all.
When Sally started working in the Pharmacy, it wasn’t as if anyone could really avoid her, as much as that pained the social shiners who would rather have turned their noses up than paid her for their prescriptions.
anyone But, whatever else they’d said about her – and probably still did if he knew the place well enough – she’d always been a force of nature; enduring and endearing. She was just… fun. When he was a teenager, never quite sure of where to call home, shunted back and forth between places that he’d lon
