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Save Some for Me: Inspiration for Single Mothers and the People who Love Them
by Susan A. Jennings
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 Dancing in the Rain: Friends Old and New-Dancing, Dating and Having Fun
While the storm was raging I was dancing in the rain trying to "find myself." At first I was too busy, scared and shy to look for new friends or to socialize outside work and home. It was perhaps true to say that new friends found me. Old friends treated me differently. I was no longer part of a couple, and I didn't fit in with the group anymore. New friends are strangers and the singles scene was very foreign to me. In spite of my reluctance, well meaning new single friends dragged me screaming and kicking to disco bars-late '70s, early '80s-and even a couple of blind dates. We had a blast! It had been almost 20 years since I had socialized without a partner and the only way I knew how to behave was to be 18 again. My naiveté led me into some funny and very dangerous situations and I am eternally grateful to streetwise friends for coming to my rescue on more than one occasion.
Gossip travels fast in a place like Berry Hill Hamlet, so once the news broke that Rodney had moved out, my status in the community changed. I am not sure if I pulled away from them or they pulled away from me but I was definitely living in a different world. Carol lived in the same community and I was to meet one other divorced single mom from the area. I had met Martha briefly and when the news of my separation reached her ears, she called me immediately. It was comforting to talk to someone else who had been through a separation. Martha insisted that I needed to get out, have some fun and meet men, lots of them. Going out and having fun sounded like a good idea, but meeting men -- "dating?" I was not so enthusiastic about.
Martha was an outgoing, gregarious person, the extreme opposite of me, and Carol's personality was somewhere in the middle. Circumstances pulled us together as friends and on occasions we were referred to as the three musketeers. On reflection I don't think it was an accurate description. I was certainly a friend to both but they were very different types of friendships; Carol's friendship was to become very close and long lasting, while Martha's was superficial and neither reciprocated nor long term. However for the few years that we teamed up as the three musketeers we learned to socialize, enjoy ourselves and even date guys again, and I have Martha to thank for that.
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