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Hidden Lake

     I felt that I let emotion guide me to Hidden Lake. All that mattered was being much closer to Karyn than I had been for a year after she moved to Alabama. If only I knew about the special needs of those students (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) and the stress they endured. Given that my engagement ended nine months after settling in what I thought was going to be my long term home, I wonder if I should have stayed in San Antonio a little longer and waited for a better overall opportunity. But maybe this was a part of the journey I had to take to where I am in the late summer/early fall of 2018.

     NOTEWORTHY:  A year after breaking up with Karyn, I reconnected with her and was hoping that we would have another opportunity to share our lives with each other--especially as she was moving to North Carolina (and she was settling down about two hours east of where I was living). I later found out she got married; at the time I was bitter about it. Later on, however, I learned that her husband was abusive, they got a divorce, and she moved back to Alabama with her two daughters. It also took me a couple of years to discover that Karyn had severe emotional problems that I should have noticed all the time we were dating.

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