After waiting a week, I emailed H asking again for his best estimate of when he will return so I can make plans. My light one liner for the day was that I had heard a great band at a bar in our very unsophisticated town. I closed with lyrics from a song about a country girl who left her little town for a life with the rich and famous.
Pick me up on your way down when you're blue & all alone. When the glamour starts to bore you come on back where you belong.
"Just kidding" I said.
This led to an exchange of emails consisting almost entirely of lyrics to country songs.
He replied with:
I was born the running kind. with leavin always on my mind. Home was never home to me at any time.
Every front door found me hopin I'd find the back door open. There's got to be an exit for the runnin kind.
"just kidding - kind of " he said. He gave a very vague response to my question. He asked again where I would be traveling to, because I hadn't answered before.
I replied with a more direct question - Will you will return in October or do I need to arrange for a petsitter while I go to Nearby State (not a place where I have family or friends that he knows of)?
My lyrics:
She laid her heart and soul right in your hands and you stole her every dream and you crushed her plans I guess to build yourself up so high you had to take her and break her down.
Stupid boy, you can't fence that in Stupid boy, it's like holding back the wind
It took awhile for her to figure out she could run but when she did, she was long gone, long gone.
Today he wrote: Are you moving to Nearby State or just visiting? Also said he needs some minor surgery so probably will not be back in Oct. (No lyrics this time.)
I replied that my trip to Nearby State was strictly for pleasure.
He wrote back that he leaves for France tomorrow. He had been trying for 3 days to make travel and hotel reservations and couldn't figure it out. Finally, the people he is staying with did it for him. I guess they figured that he would never leave unless they did. He signed off with "I wish you happiness" No further inquiry about my plans to visit Nearby State.
Maybe it was already too late to get him coming back my way. I suppose that might change now that he leaves the City where he was the Star of the Month with lots going on and many people around. What I am doing in my life is pretty much the same either way.
