title: For Absent Friends
author: White, Mike
description: When retired widower Ted notices a weather worn and neglected wooden bench in his local churchyard he resolves to restore it to its former glory. Once he does this however, he meets Veronica, and from then on nothing in his life would be the same again, which leaves him with a rather delicate question. Is it ever really too late to find love...?For Absent Friends is just one of ten short stories from the collection entitled, Paul McCartney's Coat and Other Stories, which is available to purchase separately.