It was loneliness that had led him to seek a conversation on a restaurant patio long past the lunchhour, as it was loneliness that had made her empty the refrigerator in the cottage and pack her belongings into five mega-sized black plastic garbage bags and drop them outside a Goodwill early one morning.
Even on the busiest of weeks, taking an hour-long lunch break to read alone on a nearby park bench might be just the cure for an otherwise crazy schedule and overwhelmed mind.