Pauline felt an explosion in her head. She collapsed to the pavement like a rag doll.
This sounds like a two person job. The person she was talking to could’ve been a woman— or that man she almost hit with her grocery cart in the store who told her to have a good day— and it sounds like someone else hit her from behind. Send like the person she saw sitting with her son was either familiar or non threatening enough for her to thank them for sitting with her son
