To appreciate the next episode, it helps to recall who Lyndie always was: An outrageous woman (if not yet “older”). She and Cal left the New York tenement with their toddler daughter and returned to California. Cal got jobs in construction, but there was never regular employment, let alone a career. After 4 years there,ContinueContinue reading “7. Abandoned Penniless in Europe: A Dream Come True?”
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4. Of Alice and the Angels
Sometime after Lyndie’s disappointing cruise, she and I took a road trip together from Wyoming to Texas. I would visit my grandchildren. She would have an opportunity — perhaps her last — to see her blind friend again. That was the first time I saw Lyndie up close and personal with others. I saw thatContinueContinue reading “4. Of Alice and the Angels”
3. What Went Wrong
https://youtu.be/ITgBtiMv3Ps https://youtu.be/JQnpGmC7egY Here is Lyndie’s own written account of the ordeal:It was going to be our last great adventure together. We’ve been friends for nearly 50 years, both of us now widowed after long marriages. I have traveled often with Graciana (not her real name; that’s the one she has chosen for herself here)–in crampedContinueContinue reading “3. What Went Wrong”
2. About Lyndie
Quite some time ago, Lyndie sent me this picture of herself. She often uses the words on that T-shirt as her sign-off on letters to me: OOW# followed up a long nonsensical string of numbers. Taking that journey with her blind friend, both widows in their 80s, was indeed rather outrageous. Whose idea was it,ContinueContinue reading “2. About Lyndie”