Alpina's blog post - Ruth

Today after school, I am going to visit an elderly woman I had regular contact with some time ago, I don't think many of you remember. Her name is Ruth and she is the wife of a university lecturer. I had had sex with her husband incidentally, once after a literature course a long time ago, but she did not know then. The professor had done it because he said his wife was not interested in sex anymore at all.

But then I met them in the street one day, and they invited me, and Ruth, who was home alone fairly often, took a fancy to me and invited me to visit her quite regularly. After some time she started to tell me about herself and her life, particularly that at her unusual age she had taken herself a lover because her husband was not interested in sex anymore at all.

Both of them are brilliant, funny people, but still not quite my age group, so eventually we didn't meet so often, and then I had my sabbatical and was away for a time. And I was always a little uneasy because I knew more about their partners' lives than they did.

But lately I met Ruth while shopping and promised I would see her one of these days. I will make an effort today and phone, so that we can arrange dinner together and catch up on our biographies.