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I don’t know if I even missed her that much. It was more the shock of her leaving me that hurt than the actual absence of Allie. We had been together for such a long time, and in the end I guess we really were leading separate lives. But when she told me she wanted me to move out…Man, that was a sucker punch.”
The first few months were really difficult for Rick. He woke up, went to work, came home, watched TV or read, drank too much, went to sleep and then started it all over the next day. But then he started talking to people, started coming out of his shell. Before, when he went to dinner with Allison, he went as part of a couple: the waiters and other patronsdidn’t notice him; he was an invisible part of the landscape to them. And he didn’t notice them either; his only focus was on his wife. But now when he went out in his neighborhood, people greeted him. Going to dinner at his favorite restaurant meant the owner would come by for a chat, bring him an appetizer on the house, sit with him for a while over a glass of wine. He was becoming a part of the community. Rick was waking up.
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