The Pact

Didn't find out about it until a couple of months afterwards.

When she was in those last stages, she had said she didn't want Jimmy around. On the last night, unknown to me, the fam had gathered at her house and were kind of living there, watching and waiting. (Kind of morbid actually). In that whole time, there was no call to Jimmy.

On that last night, the doctor had said she should have died...she must be holding on for something, it might be something unfinished. The 4 had no idea what it could be. Dad didn't know what it could be. He told the kids to call me and get me on the phone. "She doesn't want him". "I am making the decision, make it happen"

They made the call happen.

To France.

I talked to him the next day, after she had died. I was standing in a phone booth by a country road in France telling him I loved him and wished I could be with him. In some ways it as a sweet time - sweeter than we'd ever had. But in the aftermath, after the 4 gbrought him to his senses, it was Jimmy, again. Just get out of my sight.