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<\/a><\/p>\nThe train swayed\u00a0and he balanced himself with his hand on the back of a\u00a0seat. He looked down at the woman seated with her back to him. A sudden feeling of familiarity came over him as he noticed her hair-\u00a0reddish orange, frizzy, with two braids falling on her jean-jacket covered shoulders.\u00a0He couldn’t look away.<\/p>\n
She slowly turned her head and looked up at him. Her green eyes, the freckles on her cheeks -he was astonished.<\/p>\n
Caitlin!?!<\/em><\/p>\n And in the instant he thought\u00a0 it was her,\u00a0\u00a0the woman’s face changed into that of\u00a0a red-haired, green-eyed, stranger. It was a shock. He couldn’t believe it. He locked eye-contact for too long with the stranger, hoping impossibly that it was Caitlin.\u00a0He braced himself on the back of the seat again.<\/p>\n “I’m sorry. I thought you were someone else.”<\/p>\n He got off the train stood for a moment\u00a0on the busy platform. It all came back. Caitlin was\u00a0dead. She died of an overdose fiver years earlier, in a bathtub. He didn’t want to, but he imagined her floating like Millais’ Ophelia<\/a>-only nude. It was a creepy thought. He hadn’t known her very well. She was one of the casualties. But he remembered she was beautiful.<\/p>\n He looked around the platform. The train was gone. The crowd thinned out.<\/p>\n He re-focused on the meeting and\u00a0headed towards work.<\/p>\n copyright 2016 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was early Monday morning\u00a0and he\u00a0was taking Commuter Rail\u00a0to work.\u00a0The train was approaching his stop.\u00a0Getting up from his\u00a0seat, he queued in the aisle behind several other passengers who were also lining up to get off.\u00a0 The car was crowded and … Continue reading
![Millais’ Ophelia<\/a>-only nude. It was a creepy thought. He hadn’t known her very well. She was one of the casualties. But he remembered she was beautiful.<\/p>\nHe looked around the platform. The train was gone. The crowd thinned out.<\/p>\nHe re-focused on the meeting and\u00a0headed towards work.<\/p>\ncopyright 2016 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was early Monday morning\u00a0and he\u00a0was taking Commuter Rail\u00a0to work.\u00a0The train was approaching his stop.\u00a0Getting up from his\u00a0seat, he queued in the aisle behind several other passengers who were also lining up to get off.\u00a0 The car was crowded and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ophelia_%28painting%29#\/media\/File:John_Everett_Millais_-_Ophelia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\"){kind=link}