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Single Sketches

Etched Encounters

by M.K. Allison

The lights are low, and the music is soft.  And you…you’re dazzling in an outfit that costs almost as much as your son’s tuition last year.  At the moment, you’re sitting across the table from a man who seems like he was catalog ordered, especially for you, from the Master Matchmaker.  He is tall, your kind of cute, resplendently dressed, articulate, and available…or so you think.

Samantha met her dream guy and married him three weeks after they met.  They moved into her newly purchased home.  Three days after the wedding, however, she came home and found her house empty of all, but an old chair that belonged to her late grandfather.  This included her clothes, her dishes, and her new husband.  Her neighbor reported seeing a moving truck parked in front of her door. When she stopped crying, she found out they weren’t legally married, because he was still married to another woman in another state.

Susie was on a first date with a guy, whom she felt had some serious potential.  All evening she was pinching herself at her good luck.  When they left the theater, he mentioned that he had to stop by a friend’s house to pick up some money owed him.  Susie became uneasy as she sat alone in the car waiting for him to come out.  Her instincts kept telling her to leave, but her feet wouldn’t move.  The guy came out with a woman following behind him.  They were arguing, as they approached the car, and Susie saw a knife in the woman’s hand.  She quickly called the police on her cell phone and locked the doors.  (The guy had left his keys in the ignition)  Before she knew it, the woman was pounding on the windows threatening to kill her, because she was out with her man.  The police arrived quickly and subdued the woman, just as she was going after the guy with the knife.

Kelly did something really stupid and ended up paying a dear price.  She met a guy in a bar and ended up that same night with him in a hotel room.  He raped, beat her, handcuffed her to the bed, and stole her car.

These incidents are shared for those singles out there meeting strangers all the time who may have their radar off.  Too often, we let people into our lives who never should have gotten past the front gate.

 

 

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