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After Europe and Finally Letting Go

  After Europe and Finally Letting Go Heidi and me - about to go river rafting down the American River H eidi and I had decided to move forward now that she was back from her big trip to Europe. Heidi returned to work at the Recreation Center for the Handicapped (The Rec Center). While Heidi was gone, I had found a full time position down in Silicon Valley at a start-up company called Consilium. Everything was going along pretty much like it was before. We were living in an apartment on the corner of 28 th Avenue and Cabrillo in San Francisco, just one block from Golden Gate Park. Like all my IT jobs, Consilium was located down the peninsula. They were in Santa Clara County, about a 40 minute or so commute away. It was not unusual for me to work long hours. I rarely got home before 6:00 where as Heidi got off at 4:00 and was home about 15 minutes after that. Given that I wouldn't be home for a couple of hours, Heidi started stopping by her mother's, who lived close t

Heidi Goes to Europe

  Heidi Goes to Europe Heidi at the Airport H eidi and I were living together in a large one bedroom apartment on 28 th Avenue in San Francisco. The building bordered on Clement Street and was one block from Golden Gate Park. We weren't far from the Polo Field around which we regularly jogged. We were on the Richmond District side of the park. The other side, the south side of the park, was the Sunset District where Heidi grew up and where her mother, Jenny, still resided. The Sunset District extended out to Ocean Beach on the west side of the city but even though the sun sets in the west, there were few occasions to view sunsets there as that area was generally foggy when the sun went down. I think whoever gave that district the name of Sunset either had never been there or did so mockingly. H eidi had been planning a long trip to Europe for a few years with her girlfriends Maureen and Sue, who were cousins,. Maureen grew up in the house next to Heidi's famil