One of them closed her eyes, and I stared at her shoes as they took her away. Her eyes were wide open and her chest moved, as she breathed her last seven breaths. I sat on the cold concrete floor, staring at her empty shoes and trying to make it real in my mind. –
There were many changes and surprises in the fall and winter of 1973, lots and lots of ‘em. I think I shoved her, maybe. Let’s go get a drink, and something to eat.”
My first wife Elaine was buried three days after she fell, on August 18th. My wife Elaine stormed in and shouted, “One of my friends saw you kissing the neighbor Nora! I grabbed a rag and hurriedly wiped Elaine’s hair and dried blood off the pipe. I don’t remember exactly what I did to my wife. As simple and relatively easy improvements, we added a second bathroom, porch, and a large living room to the 140-year-old house. When I went to complete the water and sewer lines for the washer after her funeral, I pulled a pipe from underneath the machine.
