After 50 Years, I Finally Went to See My First Love at 76—Then Fate Intervened in a Way I Never Expected

simply weren’t Margaret. And when you spend long enough measuring the whole world against one lost thing, you eventually end up living beside your own life instead of inside it.

I had no children. I had no family left except a few distant cousins I mailed Christmas cards to out of habit more than any real closeness. My continue reading …