SHOPPING FUN

What an unlikely title....but we went shopping today and ran into a friend that we haven't seen or heard from in about 35 years. She recognized Inklings or we wouldn't have recognized her. She and her husband were good friends while I was going to school at both universities I attended after we were married. We had a lot of fun together and killed a lot of weekends.

After we graduated he went into a business where he developed a bacteria (I think---may have been a fungus) that ate oil. It was used in oil spill clean-ups all over the world. It took him lots of tries and a lot of time to finally work through and come up with his discovery. About the time he started to make a lot of money (and he made a lot of money) from it he found out he had cancer (caused by his experimenting) and he died within a couple of years. He left a young family of wife and three children. It was sad.

She told us today she married one of his employees who helped her run the business but she finally got fed up with him and got a divorce. After that she went to nursing school and was a nurse for a lot of years. She said she retired this year from nursing but still has to work two days a month---I don't know if this is to pay her insurance or what.

It was good to see her and get reacquainted---she owns a house about 30 miles south of us and said she spends about half of her time there. That will make it easy to stay in touch with her from now on.