and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom’s middle
and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
When we first got there, I sat in the back of the visitation room,
a little room of exposed stone walls off to the side of the sanctuary in the Literal Heart of Jesus church.
There were maybe eighty chairs set up in the room, and it was two-thirds full but felt one-third empty.
For a while, I just watched people walk up to the coffin, which was on some kind of cart covered in a purple tablecloth.
All these people I’d never seen before would kneel down next to him or stand over him and look at him for a while,
maybe crying, maybe saying something, and then all of them would touch the coffin instead of touching him,
because no one wants to touch the dead.
Gus’s mom and dad were standing next to the coffin, hugging everybody as they passed by,
but when they noticed me, they smiled and shuffled over.
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