Another Passage: I watched Alice move about the apartment, dreading what I was going to tell her, yet relieved that I was going to unburden myself of this curse that I have been carrying on my back...Alice, you know I am about to tell you something, my story. You only have a miniscule idea of what has transpired. I love you Alice, and I want our relationship to be built on love and trusting and understanding. I have told you a great deal, but to someone who has not lived through it, the events, the transition from one phase to another, it does not make a lot of sense. Now I am about to fill in the gaps...Alice...my beautiful Alice...I remember the day you called and uttered those words, Its Mom! I can not wake her up! I think she is dead!...and I got dressed, jumped in the car and was at your place in fifteen minutes...and it began one of the longest weeks in our life together...the calling hours, the funeral, the internment...meeting your family, friends, and co-workers...and picking up the pieces of our life together...Her suffering is over, Alice...she lived a long and fruitful life...I am sorry you had to find her that way, all by yourself...I am sorry you never got to say good-bye to her, but your final memories of her were wonderful...I never got to say good-bye to Dad, and my final memories of him were not so wonderful...watching a man who was once so strong and vital being reduced to ashes...You know when I was the most frightened? The day you called and were hysterical, telling me about your accident, that you were still inside the car, and that a passer-by called 911...you were only a few blocks away from my apartment, and I was racing to my car, parked in front of my apartment house, I heard the sirens, several of them, thinking, my God, this must be big...the hospital, the trauma room, stabilizing you...I remember it all to the point were I was having nightmares about variations of the scenario...What if?...Alice, I am not going to let images distract me from from accomplishing what I came to do tonight...You better hold on tight, Darling, we are going to edge of the world.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:05:16 +0000
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