Meet Chuck. We’re 6 feet apart but we’re also the only patrons having lunch in this particular restaurant so we chose to sit together. Chuck is 80 years old and worked at Lockheed Martin for 34 years with a top secret clearance. His wife of 33 years,...

Meet Chuck. We’re 6 feet apart but we’re also the only patrons having lunch in this particular restaurant so we chose to sit together. Chuck is 80 years old and worked at Lockheed Martin for 34 years with a top secret clearance. His wife of 33 years, Gayle, died in September and he is alone. He met Gayle on his birthday at a restaurant where he was celebrating his birthday and she was celebrating Mother’s Day with her family. He was hesitant to try and talk to her because she was “out of his league and always will be” but he took a chance and never looked back. He talks about her every day and showed me his favorite pictures of them together and told me about how they toured 48 states. He is beyond proud of his grandson, who is a local firefighter, and he cried telling me about the award he won and how he got the transfer he had been working for, which he starts this Monday. Chuck is going to Biloxi, Mississippi next week to the casinos because before Gayle passed she told him that if played the casinos there in May he will be OK and she’ll make sure he wins so he won’t have to worry about money anymore. I don’t know it Chuck will win at the casinos in Biloxi but I know two things for sure. 1. Buying Chuck’s lunch was the best money I’ve ever spent and 2. Chuck has already won, whether he knows it or not.
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