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Once home, Lorraine made dinner, but they seldom sat down to eat before 9 p.m.
“We had no time for a social life; we were too tired,” Lorraine recalls. “And on the weekends, we were too busy catching up on the rest of the work (around the house) to do.”
The Robsons were accustomed to the pace — the way of life in the New York metropolitan area. Both had grown up with it.
But Paterson, the dty where Lorraine was bom and raised, had changed dramatically. She says her neighborhood “was heavy industry, but today’s it’s heavy welfare.”
Both had successful careers. Their home was paid off; the family was there. Still, Lorraine and Eugene knew they had to leave. ‘ “To have stayed would have been almost imI possible,” Lorraine sayS.
They did what family and friends thought was mission impossible: Retired, sold their home, packed bags and headed for some rural place called Rappahannock.
They hadn’t left on a lark. Like many county residents, the couple had admired Rappahannock from afar for years.
Every time they returned—for vacation or just an extended weekend—the tug grew stronger.
“They all thought we were absolutely out of our minds,” Lorraine recalls of telling family and friends they were leaving. “One of them asked me, ‘Did you buy a condo?’ ”
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