I've Been There, Susan, Call Me Lu

People said all the right things, until they didn't. And yet she felt bonded to her colleagues in a hard to explain way. Because co workers were strangers upon whom she relied on. They seemed to want not her respect, but her love,. She missed the retired managers who had seemed to genuinely care for her and wanted her to rise. Both came from blue collar families and had considered her perhaps one of them. Lu thought how mother rose in her thoughts every few years, as if memory had its seasons.