A 68-Year-Old Widow Moved Above an Omaha Laundromat And Three Exhausted Nursing Students Taught Her That Noise Can Be a Lifeline

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“No,” Laurel said. “You don’t. But maybe you could.”

She agreed to meet me the following Saturday at a diner halfway between Omaha and Topeka.

She gave me no promise beyond one meal.

Calder refused to come.

“I’m not ready,” he said over the phone.

“You don’t have to be.”

“You’re driving there alone?”

“Tessa is coming.”

“Of course she is.”

“What is that supposed continue reading …