SHRINK - excerpt: late summer, A south-bound train cafe car on the broadway limited, 1936

This excerpt from my "Shrink" (novel form in progress) is for anyone who is elderly (or feels elderly due to this life's challenges) who has endured the death of a partner, loved one, child, other kinds of "deaths" such as swift change of career or path, internal or external and who is decidedly now reinventing the wheel of his/her life.... 
It is never to late to start today.