I feel so much better after a 3.5 mile hike in 68 degree weather. I wore a skort. No snow on the trail at all! Birds singing and peepers peeping. The end of the trail backs up to a housing development in the next town, so it's less woodsy. I sat down on a big rock and let the sun shine on my face. Heaven. Then I hiked back, up the big grade to my house.
I spoke to the girlfriend. She says her alarms were going off before he left and that she knows it was not her fault. She's a talker, and I suspect I may hear from her again. Now, the person who actually told me about this, whom he dated for awhile (this precipitated his separation, divorce, etc), and was an actual friend of mine, is going a little nuts on Facebook. She posted his HS grad picture, which is quite a memory inducer for me. But, I know this woman is a bit "off." She moved away a year before i did and seems to have reconnected with people who barely remember her. All of this is quite weird. After all, we are all in our early 60s...