The Importance of Orientation

After leaving the lady's apartment we were told she had not stayed in her apartment for long after all. The old life had become the new life that she had been living. For several weeks we stayed in one place after another, never unpacking our suitcases. A certain bloom, an innocence, or perhaps just an ignorance, had been stripped from us. I thought often of the home we had left, our own home, left of our own volition.