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Week 15
They say opposites attract, and that's exactly how it was.
She, the city girl, flourished on crowded concrete grounds, neon lights, buildings that touched the sky and the never diminishing noise of traffic.
He, the country boy, preferred the idyllic scenery and serenity woods and lakes offered him.
Hadn't she taken that wrong turn on her way to one of those secluded, yet awfully exclusive spas, and then gotten stranded somewhere in the middle of nowhere, they probably wouldn't have met. Driving by in his pick-up truck, he found her sitting on top of her shiny Mercedes, sulking, puffing a cigarette. As fate would have it, he was a mechanic; towing her to his small-town garage and fixing what needed to be fixed, he became her hero.
They fell hard and instantly.
She seduced him into the city, but every so often he pulled her back to where they met, took her hiking or down the river in his little rowboat.
.
Standing by the river bank, the old man remembers it all with clarity: their lives, their love.
His loss.
"C'mon, Rosie, let's take her out one last time."
He grunts as he shuffles toward the blue boat.
