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Former husband whom I hadn't seen or heard from for 25 years called me in MA to tell me that he had sold his business in MA and retired to The Villages in FL.

Asked me if I would come visit him with no strings attached. He mentioned that The Villages is the place to retire. Since he was much older than me, I wasn't ready to retire and not sure if I wanted to renew a friendship with someone I couldn't live with many years ago.

I decided to make the trip and was so very impressed with The Villages and unfortunately not impressed with former hub. Stayed a week and we both knew that our paths had grown way apart. I left after a week with a sulking exhusband left to sulk and never to be heard from again.

About three years later I was visiting friends in Sarasota and decided to take a ride to show them The Villages. At that visit, I bought a place in TV there and then (which was eight years ago) and did not contact exhub re my new residence in TV.

By this time exhub was very ill and passed shortly after my moving here. I chose to not befriend him upon moving here however I did take him to a dr's visit in Leesburg and found him to be extremely fragile and weak as well as suffering with dimentia.

I do appreciate learning about TV from him and love the lifestyle as a snowbird. Best of all...I met my "Mr Wonderful" here in TV and they lived happily ever after.