Uneventful Life

I was a junior in college when the boy I was in love with told me he was gay and moving to New York. I was thirty seven, a nurse when a doctor getting a divorce fucked me and left me pregnant and reconciled with his wife. I decided to keep the baby and raise it. Whatever it was. It was a girl and I named her Christine.

When Christine was ten I let her go to spend the week with her father and his wife. The most anxious thing I had done. They went on a cruise and she went too, she and her half brother and half sister. I stayed and felt sorry for myself. I went out to eat, and then for the first time since before Christine was born, I went to a club. Met a man at the bar and he came home with me and I had sex again.

I am now 67, I went on a cruise with a woman friend who is divorced and I let myself be enamored by a man. I went to his cabin. He took his time until he developed an erection and we had sex. His erection didn't come completely down so we had sex again. Then I went to the cabin I was sharing with my friend.

We arrive tomorrow and go back to my lonely life. I'm glad I decided to keep Christine. It is the only smart thing I have done in my life.