They Went on a Holiday Cruise and Left Me With a Man They Called a “Problem”

my old dining table, which suddenly seemed far too long. The conversation stayed polite and careful. He had been a theater professor before retirement, he told me, at a small college upstate. Widowed for seven years. No children of his own, though he had helped raise Clara since she was twelve. He enjoyed reading, walking when his knees permitted, continue reading …