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“Please!” I screa my face in his shirt

“Jane, dear, it’s time to stop that As much as I appreciate it, it’s too late”

I looked up and locked eyes with the foran and brown corduroy ense on the floor, only ently

“Mr Wainwright?” I whi on?”

“To a young woence, Jane, I would hope it would be obvious” I shook host, Jane, have been for, oh, six or seven hours now”

He held up his hand, exah it “Look at that”

“What happened to you?” I asked

“Well, you were right aboutwrong thepains in the left ar sensation in the chest, shortness of breath I just keeled over”

“I’m so sorry I should have been here”

“Don’t,” he said “Don’t bla life And youmy last months You’ve become very dear to me, Jane I hope you know that I was never meant to have children But I like to think that if I had a daughter, or a granddaughter, she would be like you Good Lord, is that really what my hair looks like?”

“Focus, please, Mr Wainwright Why are you still here? Do you have unfinished business or so?” I asked

“No, no, I’ in the world right now AndI want to see what happens next”

“But don’t you want to see what’s, you know, on the other side?”

“I’ over,” he said “I’o As soon as I aanized mind, death is just another adventure’ “

“That’s from Harry Potter,” I said “Dumbledore said it in the first book”