But now I've done something that is none of those things. I bought a second condo. My daughter and her friends will live there and cover the expenses and I have an air-bed there tucked into the corner of the strangely big-as-a-bedroom laundry room. An air-bed with white sheets and a white comforter and two feather pillows waiting for me in a room with plaster cracked like a roadmap so that I can lie there and study the wall and wonder where I am going.
I've made up a pretend life for myself in St. Paul. Where I practice yoga. The cooking class I've registered for. Where I buy yarn and the bar where I never miss a happy hour and the bookstore where I work part-time. There's a good smelling salon where I get the perfect haircut and my neighbors have me over for dinner every week. I like my imaginary life.
And I like my new real life, too.
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I want to do the Peace Corps one day. Congrats on the second condo purchase.
Denise - I loved reading all these posts and catching up on your life. You are such a wonderful writer. I miss you! xxxoo Barbara
I've thought of St. Paul. Also Madison, WI, Burlington, Vt. and a few others on the east coast.
For now, Omaha is suddenly good. I might get some job experience here, finish my master's. There are friends.
The Peace Corps is an option I might look into, too. Thanks.
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