Higher love

"Why does he always sit alone?" Henry spoke quietly looking at the old man sitting by the rushing water. His ageing was becoming clear, as wrinkles covered his pale face, and the stubs and bits of hair he had left was gray. His clothes looked like they belonged to a time before Henry was even born, and he couldn't begin to understand how this man has been able to stay on his own for so long.

"Maybe he likes being alone?" Charlotte's voice sounded beside him. They had been coworkers for a while now, and their relationship had evolved into becoming best friends. Neither had ever seen Mr. Denver socialize with anyone, however he had never voiced his loneliness.

"Or perhaps he prefers the memories of the past to the experience of making new?"

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A story in which an old man can't let go of his past and tells his caretaker in order to warn him from doing the same mistake.