10: The Woman Who Overheard Her Upstairs Neighbors Making Love

She should speak to them. She knows they are young and in love and not aware that she overhears their most intimate moments. And she knows how it might look, coming from her, old and alone. But she needs sleep. She knows, when you are young and in love, it's easy to forget that there is a world that includes old women who no man has ever loved. She believes that people are good at their cores, but she knows, too, that people are selfish. She is selfish. She knows she would embarrass them, out of bitterness. She shouldn’t speak to them.