AH, THE SMELL OF LOVE
The movers arrived on time the next day and it didn’t take long for the van to be loaded and everything out of the apartment. The utilities were already transferred to management, the phone disconnected, and there was nothing more for Marissa to do but look around at where she had spent the last ten years, and say goodbye. The sadness welled up for a brief moment as she remembered the many times she and her dad sat in her living room and played cards or watched movies. They could never get enough old movies together. He had the gift to be able to recite line after line, remembering costumes actresses wore, the words to the songs. She forgot them the minute the movie was over.
That morning, Marissa decided she was not going to think about who might be outside watchin
