Neighborly Welcome
It had been three months since my best friend and lover, Pauline, had left to go to another State and I was desperately lonely. I missed her tremendously, more than I thought possible. My friends tried to get to me to go out with them, but I wasn’t interested. I knew they wanted me to find someone else but that was the furthest thing from my mind.
I was pining for her, staring out the window at nothing in particular. A moving van pulled in across the road and I watched as a young woman and the moving guy unloaded the truck. In the old days I would have offered some help but as I was now, I couldn’t be bothered being the good neighbor, so I just watched on listlessly.
When he was finished, he took off, leaving her alone. I wondered fleetingly who she was and if she’d b
