Let’s set the scene—1966, a young and lonely
Army G.I., 18 years old at the time sits with his
buddies in a German gasthaus drinking beer.
A young woman walks in and sits at a table
alone. She turns the heads of every soldier in
the place.
One of them works up the courage to go over
and offer to buy her a drink. Reluctantly, she
accepts. After a lengthy and pleasant conversa-
tion, she consents to meet with him again.
Fast forward a year or so later, the same G.I. sits
alone at the N.C.O. Club at the Army base in that
same German town.
He recognizes another young and attractive woman
as one he went out with once around the time he had
gone out with the first woman.
At the time, she too accepted to go out with him.
But, things between the two did not work out,
and he never saw her again.
Eventually, he and the first woman were married. Funny
how things turn out, sometimes for the best, they say—one
woman says, yes; and another for reasoning unbeknownst
to him, turned him down.
Some 65-years year have passed since then. Ending in a
divorce after seventeen-years of marriage and two children
later, history for him and that first woman who years earlier
said, yes, had not been so kind.
The second woman who said, no, has become an enigma
to him. In his old age and alone now, why is the mystery
question which to this day occasionally occupies his mind?
One thing is for sure, he muses, passing time tells no lies.
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Chris Hanch 5-1-2023
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