Years before JuJu and Joanna met, JuJu experienced some significant health issues. It took many months to even feel human. JuJu had to be out of work for 3 months trying to recover. Little did she know, this would be a challenging journey in itself. The sickness left her with a number of illnesses and a disease that would plague her later. The Graves Disease alone took over 10 years to regulate.
Joanna had been trying to continue to work while she was in her forties and fifties, all the while dealing with extreme back pain. Like JuJu, you do what you have to do to survive and make a living. The pain Joanna suffered would eventually catch up with her, as well.
JuJu and Joanna separated from their husbands around the same time. They both struggled with the overwhelming emotions that go along with separation and divorce. Neither of them expected to be separated, but circumstances come into our lives and we just have to deal with them. Easy or not. It wasn't just the emotional anxiety that had attacked them both, but the stress of separation and divorce sometimes has a way of causing illnesses to peak its head back up.
I am not sure who called the other first, but eventually phone communication started between the two new friends and they began to slowly share some of their life events with each other. Friendship had to grow as both of them had a shield up. JuJu and Joanna joined Tam several more times for a few outings, only to acknowledge they both no longer needed or wanted to be in the bar scene. It surely was not as much fun as it had been in their much younger years. With that determined, JuJu and Joanna would sometimes meet for supper at nearby restaurants and continue their conversations and growing friendship.
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