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Mahir wiped the back of his hand across his eyes “I never even got to meet her, Shaun It’s just it’s so da o Maybe if I let the on their own “It is what it is Isn’t that how these things always go? They are what they are We just get to cope”

“I suppose that’s true”

“At least she got her story” The parking lot of the funeral ho sites and a presidential ca will do that sort of thing Their securitythe ghost of a se in the back of lanced atslot reserved in the “fa? You’re s the door There’d be men with blood tests at the funeral ho to tell me how sorry they were, to share their tears like I could understand them when I could barely understand ot asat , until he followedfor us”

“Shaun?”

“Yeah?”

“Was it worth it?”

No, whispered George, and, “No,” I said “But then again, when you get to the end, what really is?”

She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it I ca for the ride, and I lived It wasn’t worth it But it was the truth, and it hat had to happen I tried to hold onto that as alked into the funeral hoood-byes as we could It wouldn’t be all of theh, for oing to be anything e,” I whispered

What?

“Check this out”

We stepped inside