Disappearance in Chelsea

Her shoe print remains in the aging cement some forty years after what turned out to be our goodbye kiss. I see it every day on the walk I take with my Cairn Terrier Tobin. A crisp fall New England afternoon was the last time I or anyone else saw Navy Nurse Lieutenant Kathleen Springer. It was against military regulations for us to be carrying on a romantic relationship she being a Naval officer and I an enlisted hospital corpsman but that didn't prevent us from entering into a brief but profound affair. We stepped over that invisible line and we paid a price. I think about it to this day and I would give anything to step with her over that line again.