CityView Magazine - Fayetteville, NC
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CityViewNC.com | 11 little girl in need and to receive the same from her. He told of arriving in her town with his truck and his keys and his phone and his wallet. He was without a change of clothes or a toothbrush or anything else that might accompany any one of us on an overnight visit. ose things were unimportant at the point of disembarkment from Fayetteville. So aer the first cathartic meeting with his daughter, he found himself in 30,000 square feet of department store, looking for a shirt to wear the next day. "It occurred to me that this was the first shirt I remember buying for myself...in my life." Standing over those stacks of blue and white button-down shirts, he did not know a Traditional Fit from a Tailored Fit from a Slim Fit. His mom and his big sister had bought his clothes when he was growing up and his wife had bought them when he was a man. So there he stood, lost in a 30,000 square foot sea of retail choices, getting whacked across the back by another measuring stick of what was lost and of how his life had changed. I listened, trying to convey empathy, but I have never lost like he has now lost. So I chuckled when he chuckled at how he must have looked in that store. I teared up when he got teary at telling how we have nothing if we have no faith. In the silence that cued me to speak, I said this: "At some point, buddy, I think we all just wander around lost and alone inside a crowded room trying to figure out what style we are and what it is we really need." Of these things, though, I am sure: he will look handsome in his new shirt, he is going to ache for as long as he lives life here on earth and he is going to be just fine at finishing what the two of them started. CV Extra Bold Bold Medium Across from Best Buy and Target M-F 8a-10p | S 8a-8p | Su 10a-6p (910) 864-1500 Fayetteville 2043 Skibo Road, Ste. 101 24 Hour Referral Line 1-800-692-4442 24 Hour Fax Line 1-800-642-5791 • www.3hc.org • info@3hc.org Services Offered: • Home Health • Hospice Care • Private Duty Nursing • Physical Therapy • Occupational Therapy • Speech Therapy • Private Pay Nursing Assistance A private, not-for-profit organization Celebrating 35 years of service to patients in Cumberland and surrounding counties