but it’s a literal statement of fact. I suppose it’s actually a source of strength, in a strange way.
“It’s Sammy,” he said. I hadn’t been expecting that. “He passed away at the weekend, Eleanor.
A massive coronary. It was quick, at least.I nodded. It was both a surprise and not a surprise.
“What happened?” I said. Raymond started eating, telling me the details between—and during—mouthfuls.
I’m not sure what it would take to put that man off his food. The Ebola virus, perhaps.
“He was at Laura’s,” he said, “just watching the telly. No warning, nothing.”
“Was she there at the time?” I asked. Please God, let her have been spared that.
Trying to live on afterward, trying to manage the guilt and the pain and the horror of it all...
I would not wish that on another human being. I would happily assume her burden if I could.
I’d barely notice it, I’m sure, on top of my own. “She was upstairs, getting ready to go out,” he said.
Got a hell of a shock when she came down and found him on the sofa like that.
So it wasn’t her fault. She couldn’t have saved him, even if she’d tried. It was fine—well, as fine as death could be.
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