November 7, 2023:
"Who cares about them?" Says my ex of my neighbors. In my clifftop apartment in Pacifica, with its 190 degrees of ocean front and, strangely, her unlooked-for presence after fifteen years.
She cares about her own neighbors though. Profoundly, militantly. You bet she does. In her world her situation and mine are two very different things.
This is the moment of sudden enlightenment when I come to understand exactly why my friends uniformly detested her.