She said she has already prepared lunch and she will give some to me.I hesitated to take from her but she insisted. So I took it home and started watc...hing a new movie with my main door open. Meantime I was eating the food she gave me. Suddenly a famous song from the film was playing. While crossing my room, she heard the song.So, in a fraction, she entered my room. I was shocked to see her and we all know how a bachelor room is. She said she likes this song very much and she asked whether she. I found the door to room 411 and was surprised to see a card hanging by the doorknob. All It said was "Read me." I walked and and took in the room. It was dimly lit and very simply decorated. I immediately noticed the large circular bed in the center of the room. I also saw what appeared to be a dresser right by the door on the other side of the room. Sitting on top of the bed a strip of velvet fabric and a small silver bell. I wondered what it was for as I opened the card.Angie, Just remove. At the time, I had been reading the Diary of Anne Frank for school. Between that and watching reruns of Hogan's Heroes, somehow my brain set me as a prisoner in a Nazi camp. I returned to these pages so many times that my simple red journal falls open to the page when I open it. I continued the dream with the guard in the fantasy falling in love with me, sneaking me out, and raising a family with me. Then abruptly my journal entry switches to addressing God. I beg his forgiveness for my sinful. He started to set the phone down when he heard a small chirp, the notification alert. He glanced at the phone. She had posted something on Facebook again. He had retired after 30 years of hospital work as a therapist. Going from one patient’s room to another, to another… It all stopped with retirement. Not to mention the partial lock downs and social distancing due to widespread health concerns. It was all very isolating. The few coworkers and even fewer former patients who friended him.
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