Elderly Woman Returns to Her Old Hometown and Sees Friend Who Betrayed Her 40 Years Ago — Story of the Day

Glenda Reilley met her best friend who had betrayed her forty years before and realized that she couldn’t blame her, only thank her.

Glenda Reilley and Dina Muscovich were best friends from grade one and all through middle school and high school. They shared everything, except Hank — he was Glenda’s boyfriend from the time they were 13.

The idea that Glenda and Dina would ever be anything but best friends was unthinkable until they went to college, different colleges, and a man came between them.

Glenda never imagined that a trip back home would bring her face to face with her betrayer. It had been forty years since she had seen Dina for the last time, and as far as she was concerned, ‘never’ would have been soon enough.

But one look at Dina produced the opposite reaction to what she had imagined. There was no wave of hate, anger, and resentment, instead, she felt pity for the woman standing before her, a woman she remembered as bubbly, beautiful, and energetic.

Glenda had walked into the hairdresser and there was Dina, forty years older, of course, but looking decades older, and worse of all, looking defeated.

The moment Dina saw Glenda her face lit up and for a moment she looked like the old pretty, hopeful Dina. “Glenda!” she cried, jumping up from her chair in the waiting area. “Oh Glenda! You look beautiful!”

Glenda stood frozen, staring at her former friend. Had Dina forgotten what she had done to Glenda? Had she forgotten how she had shattered her trust, broken her heart?

It had all started when Glenda had been accepted to a prestigious Ivy League college, while Dina and Hank had remained to attend their local state college. Even though they would be thousands of miles apart, Glenda and Hank had promised each other they would be faithful.