Second Chance Hope

Two chairs sat curbside on Thursday, each alone, two miles from one another. Old-fashioned and life-worn, both were marked FREE, a near-prayer to entice a home.


But ... no takers.

Would they have better luck together, yet another older couple, newly coupled?

Like the widow and widower who've now aged more similar than different. The couple that laughs that they'd never have noticed one another in the City in 1951. Yet here at the Senior Village in 2008, they cuddle -- content for the first time this decade.

Happy, even. And ... loved.