30 Days of Gratitude: Day 5 -- Bonn

"Tigg Almost Asleep"
June 2008 Outside Raleighwood, NC
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30 Days of Gratitude: Day 5

Day 5: Bonn

Back in early 1989 I had just moved from CT back to the DC area, leaving behind a failing marriage and a lot of my sense of the trust and how the world worked. Being too blown away to have much purpose or direction in life I started putting together the paperwork to get into grad school and found a job working in a CD store in the days just before they started shipping out the last of the vinyl LPs.

At the CD store I worked with a younger woman who, after a while, started telling me that I should meet her mother. "You two would be great for each other," she said.

"Thanks, but I'm not interested in meeting anyone," I said. Repeatedly.

Turns out she was telling her mother, "You should meet my Manager. The two of you would get along really well."

Her mother, a recently divorced single mom with a 4 year old son, was saying, "Thanks, but I'm not interested in meeting anyone."

Needless to say, her daughter was right.

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