Mom and I drove out to see her, but it’s a three-hour drive from where we live, and by the time we got to the hospital, Grans was gone.
A heart attack, they told us. Just like that.
It’s so strange how one day you can be on this earth, and the next day not.
Where did she go? Will I really ever see her again, or is that a fairy tale?
You see movies and TV shows where people receive horrible news in hospitals,
but for us, with all our many trips to the hospital with August, there had always been good outcomes.
What I remember the most from the day Grans died is Mom literally crumpling to the floor in slow, heaving sobs,
holding her stomach like someone had just punched her.
I’ve never, ever seen Mom like that. Never heard sounds like that come out of her.
Even through all of August’s surgeries, Mom always put on a brave face.
On my last day in Montauk, Grans and I had watched the sun set on the beach.
We had taken a blanket to sit on, but it had gotten chilly, so we wrapped it around us
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