The single mom got remarried.

which is a good deal for her. Lately she seems so damned happy.

I like the woman. She's got a lot of moxie. When she got pregnant she took it as a wakeup call and decided to do something about it and got herself a career in health care and made something of herself.

She has done a marvelous job of raising her daughter who is a fine young woman and a child to be proud of.

Years ago when she moved in she was taking a walk to meet the neighbors. The guy across the street and I were having a drink in the driveway. We greeted her and she introduced herself and seemed to be what in my day would be called a 'cool chick'.

We noticed right off, of course that she was rather attractive which was needless to say an asset. She was a registered nurse which was indicative of being reasonably intelligent.  Both of these assets are not as important as the big one. Was she likely to become a pain in the ass?

You can draw a MENSA 10 as a neighbor, but if she's a pain in the ass she can easily and gladly be replaced with Down's Syndrome 1 if they don't upset the rhythm of the neighborhood. Beauty and brains in the 'burbs only carry so much weight.

Better to have a neighbor that's as ugly as a mud fence and borderline retarded with a lick of common sense that pitches in and is a good neighbor than a goddess that's a nuisance.

My neighbor and I tossed her a few curves and we both immediately decided she was probably going to be quite the asset in the community. It proved to be an accurate estimation.

I seriously owe her because she's the one that discovered the fire I had and not only reported it but actively tried to fight it until the US Cavalry (fire department) arrived.

I liked her from the beginning and managed to hide my dark sense of humor the afternoon we met when she mentioned she was a nurse raising a daughter.

I bit my tongue because I really wanted to say, "What? You're a single mom and a nurse?? No! No! You're doing it all wrong! You're supposed to be a stripper!"

She's been here for about a decade and I think one of these days I'll share my dark humor with her. 

Looking back onit, had I done that she probably would have laughed like hell.

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