People on People
and they wonder what the story is
I'd say it was a good day for the Gangrey kids at the St. Pete Times.
Ben: The girl was young, slim, pretty in a strange way, and shy. She spent most of her time alone in her bedroom listening to 97X and Tool. She didn't know what she wanted from life, which is to say, she was directionless. College didn't seem right for her, so after high school she went to work where dreamers do, at Starbucks, serving one-pump sugar-free venti vanilla cappuccinos to the Subaru-driving mothers of suburbia.
That's where they met, the girl and the woman.
Tom: They come here to grow old in peace, to avoid barking dogs and screaming children. At New Port Colony Villas, a 55-and-over community tucked behind a strip mall off a hard-to-find street, the golden years are silent.
They were, anyway, until the old soldier showed up.
Erin: He punched her, pulled her hair, scratched her face. Sometimes she came to work with black eyes. Sometimes co-workers followed her home to make sure he wasn't waiting for her.