Long Lost To Memories, Greta Has Momentarily Been Resurrected

I found a shoebox of old black and white pictures. My mother said it was a box her sister sent her after her mother died. She sat with me and did her best to identify the subjects. A brother of her mother's, her uncle, who was killed in WW2, her mother and father, some neighbors and "Greta". I had to ask who was or is Greta?

Greta was a loose girl, who may have gone off with a man or two, but last heard of getting in a Cadillac with a man in a hat and a suit. The only person who ever wore a suit in her town was the undertaker. No one has heard of Greta since. With one look she let me know this was a skeleton in the closet.

Today no one is off the grid, cameras everywhere, every swipe of a debit card, every time you use the HOV lane. Greta would be in her late eighties. She could have gotten married in some county, or just ran away with some fast talking guy. She may have become a practice dummy for the undertaker.

Where ever Greta is, we wish her well and that she found a life worth living. If not for the box of pictures Greta would be long forgotten. My mother held her tongue with me, Greta must have been quite a character.