I still recall the moment as if it had happened yesterday,
she playing her role as a PR professional at an even designed to create
political peace, for the mayor she was loyal to, misplaced in retrospect after
what they mayor eventually did, ending her career, yet not yet at that moment,
the school renamed, as I humbly watched the circus unfold, the arrival of a
freeholder from another town who greeted her as an old friend – a freeholder
well-known for his womanizing, even in public spaces, and I wondered, had these
two connected as he always does with pretty woman like her. I tried to read the
tea leaves from their faces and yet now, all these many months later, still do
not know if he had added her to his trophy shelf, and whether or not she would
have let him, that brief exchange in that brief moment in that school, how
friendly they seemed even though he later claimed he’d not met her for that.
Just another trophy?
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