Goomba38 >, if that's their real name, wrote:

>My father always insisted on a properly set table
>(cloth or mat, fork/knife/spoon, S&P, wine
>glass..) and one of the saddest things I
>witnessed after my mother died was watching him
>set the table for just himself. I guess it was
>somewhat of a ritual because he just couldn't
>(didn't want to) relax his standards. He just
>wasn't really used to dining alone, I think that
>is one reason why he married again sort of quickly.

My dad never did remarry. He had two "lady friends." One of them
pressured him to marry her. He told her, "I'm already married." When Dad
passed, his obituary read that he had been reunited with his wife.

Carol

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