I'm good. Much better than before. I had a few meltdowns, but I'm getting along just fine. L never tried to contact me, so I guess that is where it stands. I think I finally found closure and it is with your help. The posts that you all made really helped me to get here. As I mentioned before, I hope you can help her and let her know that I will always keep an open door for her if she ever wants to reach out to say a proper goodbye. I know she will never see this.

This weekend was pivotal to my return to confidence. I was in a department store and there was this beautiful young Hispanic woman in a black dress with a perfect body working behind the counter. I had purchased something and she rang me up for the purchase.

I decided to perform an experiment. I returned the item I purchased and exchanged it for something else. She performed the return and we continually smiled at each other. She didn't take any of my information for the return, and I stated to her, "Oh. I was hoping that you would have taken my phone number for the return." She looked into my eyes and her smile grew wider as did mine, and she said, that I can return myself anytime that I wanted. She then went on to tell me that she works every Friday to Sunday. To leave a little bit of mystery, without asking for her contact info, I told her that I will be by next weekend to say hello. I owe it all to you guys in helping me get some closure and get my confidence back.

Thanks very much!

Gene,

It's been ages since we've seen each other. I do hope you get this. Do you still work for that tiny little law firm in LA? I hope you're doing well.

I'm sending this to you because I may have seen you on the road a couple of days ago. Well actually, it was at a rest stop really early in the morning and you were with a couple of men. I was a bit concerned about what you were up to there so late. Me and my hubby were trying to get some sandwiches but everything was closed. You looked a little wired and you were chain smoking, if you know what I mean. I didn't want to disturb what was going on there. What was going on there?

Are you still in the business of hunting people having sex in cars? I remember you and I used to go from one car to another to see if there was anything strange going on. We'd take our high beams and just blow the hell out of their faces. It was pretty crazy but we were young back then. You've gotten big and you're still smoking I see. Well, the best of luck to you and tell J I said hello. Let's do lunch the three of us.

Abigail