Standing on the Edge

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We went out for ice cream tonight. Conversation was moderate and somewhat subdued, catching up on each others lives.

She could be such a beautiful woman, but she is not really making an effort to make herself attractive; not just physically either. I mean, she is not very animated, and her eyes are not smiling, like I have known them to be in the past.

She seems rather down. Not depressed, not troubled, just blah.

I hope someday she decides to take care of herself better and puts more effort into her appearance.

It reminds me how she can be very immersed in her own problems and not very aware of the world around her, myself and her daughter included.

It was a nice, if short evening, but if I were dating her, and didn't know her very well, I would not ask her for another.