My Coworkers T.e.as.ed Me for Eating Lunch with the Lonely Janitor Every Day for 11 Years – At His F.u.ner.al, His [email protected] Pulled Me Aside and Said, ‘Mr. Wilson Left This for You’

or something just as ordinary.
I never asked.

That is the part I keep returning to now. Not once did I ask what he was writing.

The jokes began gradually, as most unkindness does.

“Lunch with your boyfriend again?” someone said one afternoon, grinning as if it were the cleverest thing they had said all week.

I laughed because that is what people do in continue reading …