Teri just had to get away from it all. She had just buried her
husband a little over three months ago, and everything around her
reminded her of him. After thirty seven years of marriage to such a
wonderful man, it was hard to get up in the morning and face the
day. Teri’s two grown daughters were getting worried about their
mother’s state of mind, and finally insisted that she get away for
a few days, just to kind of relax and let her batteries recharge.
She didn’t want to go somewhere that she and Tom had visited, so it
was decided that she would spend a week in New York City and take
in a few shows, and see all the sights. They’d talked about
doing it for years, but never got around to it, so Teri’s daughters
figured that this would be the perfect time. Teri wouldn’t have
given their little plan a chance in hell of working, but much to
her delight, she was actually having a good time. Cats and Les Miz
were more fantastic than she had ever imagined they’d be, the
Guggenheim had more stunning art in one place than was imaginable,
and the food, well it was just magnificent. New York had turned out
being the tonic that made her see that it was possible to have a
life after Tom, in fact, she was planning on making Manhattan a
yearly destination. In a city the size of New York, especially when
you’re a total stranger, you don’t expect to meet someone out of
your past, but for Teri, her life was about to take twist that was
completely unexpected, and that moment came at the check out line
at Bloomingdale’s department store. While she was paying for a new
pair of leather gloves for her younger daughter, she noticed a very
attractive woman staring at her from across the room. She tried to
ignore her, but the woman was being so obvious, that the sales lady
even commented that she thought her “friend “ was trying to get her
attention. Teri paid for her purchase and quickly made her way to
the front door where she felt a hand on her arm and the question,
“Teri, is that you?” She spun around, not sure how to react, but
in an instant recognized the face from over forty years ago in
college, “Victoria?” she asked.
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