![]() Especially when you’ve had a teensy little heart attack and walking makes you winded, as it does Dot.Īnd so, Dot’s sister, Susan, has been pushing Dot and Ralfie to move to a senior living complex, which Ralfie refers to as Maple Grave because that’s what’s next, isn’t it? Yeah, and Susan is so determined to have Ralfie and Dot move into senior housing that she buys a way-off-the-beaten-path Maple Grave apartment of her own, for her and her lover, Germaine.īut Germaine’s not happy she’s more than a decade younger than Susan and besides, she’d miss her friends back in the city, just as Ralfie would miss the guys at her job at the DPW, and Dot would miss the kids at the school library where she worked. A big problem, especially when you’ve had knee surgery like Ralfie’s had. It’s been a great place and Dot and Ralfie like the neighbors and all, but Dot’s 68 and Ralfie’s over 70 and three floors of steps are a problem. ![]() These days, though, “home” is a third-floor walk-up in a Boston neighborhood. They both remember a cocktail party when Ralfie first took Dot home with her. Dot recalled, but Ralfie denied, that they met over a pool game and Ralfie wandered away. ![]() ![]() Neither Dot nor Ralfie could agree on how they met, except that it was back when good lesbian bars still existed, before the Internet. ![]()
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