Chapter 42

Angelica

My closet was full of gorgeous clothes yet nothing fitted me. Two years of no exercise, prescription steroids, comfort eating, and yoga pants meant everything about gaining weight from size zero to size 12. The kidnap which happened ten years ago shattered everything in my life. I hit my head on a sharp rock, too much blood loss and an event which couldn’t be registered by my brain cells brought me to an almost irrevocable brain hemorrhage. I broke my lower leg bone on that swift fall, and lost everything of my self-esteem on that catastrophic day. If at all I did not meet with that accident, things would have been different. Sighs…

Ms. Ridgewood, a 60 year old lady, a doctor, and most of all, a woman filled with motherliness appeared in my life like a fairy and took care of everything starting from the food I eat to the clothes I wear. She is a widow who lost her husband and daughter in a plane crash five years ago. She is a lone woman an