The Stranger 2
I had just come through a messy divorce; she had the house on the agreement that she could not claim maintenance or any money off me. All my savings had gone on lawyers’ fees; I was homeless with no prospects of being able to buy another place of my own. I had retired at 57 years of age from the merchant navy and was looking forward to a peaceful retirement. We started arguing and it got steadily worse until the divorce. To cut a long story short, I was lucky to get a room in a hostel, half...