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"I don’t knohy you came ho off to see your father, who any contact with"

"He said I ?"

"I thought it was Now I know … I never want to see hi happened--"

"Save it No o off and you do whatever you ho I’ht now"

"No, Mom, don’t be like that Please don’t …" Tears burst froiving up on you?"

"I did so to monitor my coht over his like you do with everyone else who tries to care about you and help you"

"Mom …" Eleanor took a step forward but her mother stepped back and away froht into her eyes

"When you were little, you always called me Momma And you smiled when you said it Now it’s Mom And you never smile at ing for

"Go to bed," hertired "Or not Do whatever you want You will anyway"

Her ht off as if Eleanor weren’t still standing there in the middle of the kitchen

She merely stood there in shock and sorrow, not sure what to do She’d lost her priest, her father and her ht Who did she even have left? Anyone? Anything?

In the dark she found her way to her bed and without taking her clothes off, she slid under her covers She pulled the blanket up to her chin and closed her eyes

"Are You up there?" she whispered to God and waited, hoping, praying that soiven up on her

But God didn’t answer

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