Previous acquaintance

Last month I was at the local library, with the Scientist, when I happened to see the mother of one of Game Fanatic’s former classmates there collecting books on reserve. I couldn’t remember this woman’s name and did not approach her. But we ended up next to her at the self-checkout machines and I noticed that one of the books she was checking out was about using art as a therapy for children with Asperger’s and a few other conditions.  Her family moved to another part of our suburb and her daughter changed schools many years ago.  I think I may have met her once in all the years since, probably at the grocery store. The daughter was in my son’s class for pre-primary (kindergarten) and grade one and she was a good kid but she definitely wasn’t an average kid and was very quirky. I wouldn’t have known anything about Asperger’s then, but I suspect that maybe she is on the spectrum. It might make some sense of the quirky little girl I once knew. Of course, I only making some assumptions based on what little I recall of them and the fact of that book. It also highlights how little I recall of people and events from eight, nine or ten years ago.