I Came Home From A Cruise At Eighty Three Until I Heard The Truth§

my neighbor Pauline when the weather allowed, my garden, my own car, my own mind. I was not confused about being alone. I was not lonely in the way Linda seemed determined to diagnose. I was someone who had learned to live fully inside a smaller life, which is not the same as a lesser one.

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