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Starting Over at Sixty Years Old
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On the day of my wedding anniversary, I was cleaning my house when I found a picture album. As it turned out, my husband had been religiously taking pictures with the girl of his dreams every year on this precise date. He had been doing it since he was forty years old and he was now sixty years old. His hair had progressed from a jet black to a faded white and yet, he kept up the tradition. There was a written message in his handwriting at the back of the picture that read, “Eternal Love.” Since he doesn't love me, I will no longer bother washing his clothes and cooking for him. I will no longer care for his children and grandchildren. I may have foolishly wasted half of my life, but it was not too late to make a change.
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Starting Over at Sixty Years Old Chapter 9
Arthur turned pale in an instant and was at a loss for words. I could recognize the anguish in his eyes.My son could not bear to see him so distraught too. He whimpered softly, “Mom.”I was done talking to them. I shut the door and cut them out of my world.It took another three months before I heard the news about Arthur again.By then, I had a well-developed foundation of foreign languages and could maintain basic conversation.I received an unexpected call from my son. He told me Arthur was in the hospital.He was admitted because of carbon monoxide poisoning.What I gathered was that Sylvia was cooking in the kitchen when she got into a heated argument with Arthur. They were so busy arguing that she completely forgot about turning off the gas stove.Fortunately, the property maintenance staff happened to be inspecting the wires and managed to rescue both of them in time.It was not as severe in Sylvia’s case. She woke up shortly after the doctors treated her.Upon waking
Starting Over at Sixty Years Old Chapter 8
As it turned out, my granddaughter had been brainwashed, her idea of love had been corrupted by Sylvia. Not only did she begin to idolize the role of a mistress, but she also started chatting with some strangers online.My daughter-in-law sneered sardonically, then she called my son and made him go home at once.“Look what she’s done to our daughter.”She proceeded to show my son the conversation logs my granddaughter had been having with strangers online.My son clenched the phone tightly while his frown gradually tightened.After he had finished reading the messages, his first thought was to give my granddaughter a furious beating. However, my granddaughter cried out and pleaded for mercy, “It was Grandma Sylvia who taught me! You were the one who said that I should listen to her like I should listen to my teachers because she's a well-educated granny!”My son was stunned and turned to cast a baffled look at Sylvia.“Sylvia, I let you take care of my daughter because I trust
Starting Over at Sixty Years Old Chapter 7
The other day back at the court, someone had been filming the exchange between myself, Sylvia, and Arthur.My face was blurred, but their faces were not.“Forever love? As if! These two are a pair of venomous snakes, that’s what they are!”“There were several witnesses that day, they all saw the old fart wanting to divorce his wife! Meanwhile his mistress has been shamelessly flaunting herself to the world, how can you live this long but still have no self-respect?”The scandal began to fester online and even the boutique studio caught some heat for advertising a false romance. They had no choice but to release a statement.They claimed all they did was take pictures for the couple. Furthermore, Sylvia and Arthur had been religiously coming to the photoshoot every year so they had no reason to suspect their relationship.This only further enraged the netizens.“This old fart used to be the foreign language professor in my previous university! He was a very attentive professor, I
Starting Over at Sixty Years Old Chapter 6
Tasha, who was about my age and lived next door, threw her door open and bellowed.“Go to hell! Do you think being sixty years old means you’re one foot in the grave already? We can easily live another twenty years, but not with someone like you though! Living just a year with you is hell!“Quit whining and scram! I’m done listening to you complaining!”My son was no match for Tasha.His objections were caught in his throat and he ended up having to scurry away with his head hung low....Thirty days passed in the blink of an eye. With that, I went to the court with Arthur to get the official documents for our divorce.The moment I got the document, a wave of relief washed over me.At that very moment, the weight that I had been carrying for most of my life had been taken off my shoulders.Arthur was not as thrilled as I thought he would be.He was very gloomy on the whole and I could recognize the fatigue in his eyes.He clutched the document tightly and looked at me, it lo
Starting Over at Sixty Years Old Chapter 5
It was around evening when my son came home with Arthur who had largely recovered from his fever.The fever had done a number on him. He seemed to have grown older and looked very haggard.My son on the other hand seemed very stoic. He still resented me for slapping him.My daughter-in-law greeted me relatively politely while my granddaughter ran to me and cried out cheerily, “Grandma, please don’t leave gramps, I want us all to live together happily forever!”I did not expect them to tell my granddaughter who was just a sweet and innocent child about everything that went down.I gently pinched her chubby cheeks and assured her tenderly, “My dear, even if grandma leaves, I will still make time to come back to see you.”My son scoffed at the remark.Arthur could not take it anymore and hissed at me between his teeth, “Do you have to do this?”My daughter-in-law could sense the change in the atmosphere and wisely took her daughter to another room to play.Now that the child was
Starting Over at Sixty Years Old Chapter 4
Arthur neither agreed to my tactful suggestion for divorce nor did he refuse the option.He refused to communicate and with that, we began to stonewall each other.The combination of being drenched in the rain last night and his age had not been merciful to him. His health was no longer what it once was and he ended up catching a mild fever the next day.In the past, my reaction to him being sick would have been quite dramatic but now, I was indifferent. I even thought he deserved it.From thereon, I would only make a single portion of food for each meal. After my meals, I would head to the park for my routine yoga exercise or sometimes go shopping with my old friends.I also found time to look at some houses since I planned to move out in several days.Since I no longer had to worry about attending to trivial tasks at home, I found myself in a far more relaxed state.Soon, word of me proposing a divorce reached my son.Since he was still abroad, he did not think much of it at
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