At 67, I Took My First Trip to Malta and Chose to Say “Yes” to Everything – I Never Imagined I’d Find Love Again

written it 20 years earlier.

He told me about Ruth.

Not every detail.

Enough.

He wrote that he had confused escape with love.

That Ruth made him feel like a man without bills, routines, or responsibilities.

He said he ended it because he realized the life he wanted to escape was also the life he would choose if forced to lose it.

Near the end, he wrote:

“Eleanor,continue reading …