Details from a Stranger

While working at the recent Miles that Matter rummage sale a heavy set older woman with short unkempt hair and probing eyes came up to me and asked me to come with her as she needed some help.  I followed her over to a table where she proceeded to show me all the cross stitch materials laying there.  She said she just got out of a nursing home and wanted to take up a craft and wanted to know what she needed to start.  "The good thing is they told me I no longer have dementia, but I am bi-polar.  I also found out I have two people inside me and only one of them I know."  I have to say my eyes probably got a little wider as I listened to this stranger tell me these details.  I helped her the best I could with her cross stitch questions and went back to my station.

The next morning I was telling my running buddy Paula the story and she quipped, "Lily is looking pretty good, isnt she?"

Paula in San Antonio prior to her first marathon