Relatives encouraged him to meet someone new.
Friends invited him to dinners where a single woman always happened to be seated beside him.
He declined every offer.
Once, I suggested that Mom would not have wanted him to spend the rest of his life alone.
He looked at me with an expression I could not forget.
« I am not alone, Lola, » he said. « I have you. »
That answer broke my heart more than I let him see.
Then, almost overnight, everything changed.
He joined dating apps.
I first noticed when I visited him one Saturday afternoon.
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