A True Story of the Unexpected."The girls"-three elderly widows who have in common a solid faith in God-declare that they would never want to marry again, but on thinking it over, agree that, "It would be nice to have someone to go out with once in a while." Then the oldest of the three meets a man ... and does go out with him once in a while. As these occasions become more frequent, she finally comes clean, admitting to these two friends that yes, it is nice to be going out, escorted. But she refuses to share the details they expect. In this account of a renowned wood artist and a fiction writer dating at eighty, those details abound. It will have you laughing and crying as the two octogenarians, so different in backgrounds and interests, learn to know each other, layer by layer, and discover which things really matter.She discovers in him a unique strength of character so admirable that she writes here of their developing relationship-of its pleasures and tensions, ot its glorious moments and sad ones, of his gifts of cutting boards and roses, giving readers an insider's glimpse of this man who inspired everyone he met, friend or stranger.