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for New York to catch a flight to Jerusalem, which she hadn't visited in many years I don't reone a long while

"About a week after the funeral, Pops produced a handwritten will fro table drawer that left all her personal jewelry to Patsy along with all her clothes

"We were gathered in the kitchen when he read out the words, 'For ave the will to Patsy and he looked away, and his eyes had that saht after Little Ida died

"That look never went away

"A trust fund was also left to Patsy, he mumbled, but there was a formal bank paper to deal with that He produced an envelope of little Polaroid photographs which Sweetheart hadon the front and back

" 'Yeah, well that trust fund is next to nothing,' Patsy said, shoving the photographs and will in her purse 'It's one thousand a o but now it's sht noant s ¡¯

"Pops took the pearl necklace out of his pants pocket and pushed it towards her, and she took it, but when he drew out the wedding ring, he said, 'I'ed and left the room

"For days and nights Pops did little or nothing but sit at the kitchen table and push away the plates of food set before hinore the questions put to hi of Blackwood Farm

"I had a hand in the running of things also, and very gradually, as I conducted my first tours of Blackwood Faruests, I realized that the crazy elation which had carriedup

"A dark panic was reeht behind me, ready to take over I kept myself as busy as I could I went overhollandaise sauce and b¨¦arnaise sauce, and picking patterns of china, and chatting with guests who had co out bedroo the tractor mower over the lawns

"As I watched the Shed Men lay in the late spring flowers -- the impatiens and the zinnias and the hibiscus -- a desperate sentiht to the vision of Blackwood Manor and all it meant

"I alking down the long avenue of pecan trees out front, looking back at the house to treasure the sight of it and iuests

"I went fro on toilet articles and throw pillows and porcelain statues on mantelpieces, and the portraits, most definitely the famous portraits, and when the inevitable portrait of Sweetheart arrived -- done froraph by a painter in New Orleans -- I took down the o up in its place

"I think, in retrospect, it was a cruelty to show that portrait to Pops, but he looked at it in the sa else

"Then one day he said in a low voice, after clearing his throat, Would Jas and jewels out of their room and put thes to Patsy in my room ¡¯