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[stargazer3014]

Headed to CT this upcoming Monday. Sooooo excited to see my little brother! I was helping this older women in the shoe department at work the other day. She wanted a pair of keds but she needed them in wide and I didn't have them in stock. So she finally picked out another pair and I went and got her shoes. She was a pleasant lady and for once I didn't feel... aggitated in the presence of an older person. She sat down as I handed her the box of shoes and started the what turned out to be a long process of taking off her shoes and then her sock. She then looked up and smiled as an elderly gentleman come over and asked if she had found what she wanted. She replied that she had but she needed help trying it on. The man, her husband as I found out, slowly lowered himself to the floor and finished taking off her socks and then slipped on the new shoes then helped her stand up. Neither one of them talking to each other or myself. The woman sat there serenly and only took the man's hand when he offered it. neither rushing each other. It was as if they worked in sync with eachother. When she decided that those shoes would work, she sat back down and the man slowly lowered himself to the floor yet again and removed her shoes and put her old ones back on. They came to check out and the man paid for the shoes, took the bag and offered his arm to his wife. She smiled and they were on their way. I smiled... and I wondered what their life had been like. What kinds of things they had been through. If they were really as happy and content with each other as it seemed. For some reason, this couple really got to me and I wondered if I would ever have that. Or am I destined to end up like most of America and find myself in a dead end marriage with a man I don't love. I think I would have liked to talk to them. Ask them how they made it work. Ask them if they were each other's first love... first marriage... if they had kids. I felt the need to find so much out about life from this arthritic ladden woman and her devoted husband. I wonder what kind of person I will be when I am elderly... haha Guess only time will tell.

I miss Deki.