In the process, he checked inside a boot because he’d heard of a lottery ticket someone had once found inside boots purchased at a flea market. While he had no way of knowing on that day, it was the beginning of “what came next” in his life.Īrthur decided this was the day to sort through Miriam’s belongings to prepare them for charitable donation. On this day, however, everything changed. Feeling that it was the end of something and not knowing what came next, he had barricaded himself behind every-day meaningless tasks: watering his fern Frederica (yes, he’d named a fern), tending his garden, performing daily housecleaning chores. He had spent the last year in semi-hibernation, taking a “time out” from Life, stunned by the unexpected end of their happy marriage of more than 40 years.
We meet Arthur Pepper, a 69-year-old retired English locksmith, on the one-year anniversary of his wife Miriam’s death.
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