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JON: I will be soon

I get back onof India and how our lives have become so entwined

I don't knohat changed, except seeing the two idiots that Marina had the audacity tofor her that I realized how right she was forthat was not the kind of woman I wanted to become involved with, except for a quick fuck An alternative to masturbation Tits and ass and pussy and that was it

India is so much more

Chapter 11

INDIA

The hospital is quiet when I arrive My ical ICU and is on a ventilator She looks so frail lying there on the bed, wires and tubes attached to her, the beep beep of themy heart race out of anxiety I hate hospitals and I hate being in ICU, although I realize it's the best place for her given her injury

My dad is a basket case, sitting by her bed, holding onto her hand His face is pale, his eyes red fro her hand, talking to her

He reminds her about their first date, and talks about how they took a holiday together to Alaska, driving up in an old van and watching the Northern Lights together while they carizzly bears and polar bears, neither of which they saw

He talks about their wedding, and how they went to Nicaragua and got ood Neo-Marxists ere upset about the Reagan adovernot la turista and had the runs the entire time they spent in the posh hotel

He see by telling her how great their lives are together

They do have a great relationship – one I could only be so lucky to have for myself They are two peas in a pod They not only share the saoals, they love each other with passion and affection even after thirty years They want to spend the rest of their days together, growing old together, enjoying their retireether

He tells her all this, his eyes filled with tears, and it only makes me cry all the harder to see him so afraid

"Fight," he whispers to her before he takes a break so I can go in and sit with her for a while "Don't leave me"

He kisses her tenderly on the cheek and strokes her brow, her head wrapped in bandages Her eyes are shut, blackened fro to die and I'll never be able to talk to her again