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Adjusting my voice for the microphone, I said that Aunt Queen had been the wisest person that I had ever known and that being possessed of true wisdoifted with perfect charity, and that to be in her presence was to be in the presence of goodness Then I recited froift of wisdom, which I felt Aunt Queen possessed:

"For wisdos: and reacheth everywhere by reason of her purity

For she is a vapour of the power of God, and a certain pure ehty God: and therefore no defiled thing cometh into her

For she is the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted oodness

And being but one, she can do all things: and res"

I broke off there "No finer language can be used to describe Aunt Queen," I said "And that she lived aift to all of us, a precious gift, and that death took her so abruptly must be seen as a mercy if we are to reht have one She, the childless one as a mother to all of us The rest is silence "

Then, scarcely believing that I had stepped up to the sanctuary of the church to deliver these words before a human crowd at a Requiem Mass, I was about to return when suddenly Toestured for me to wait

He ca violently, and he put his arm around me to steady himself, and I put my hand on his shoulder, and he said into the microphone:

"She gave me the world I traveled it with her And everywhere ent, froave me those places -- in her words, in her enthusias et her And though I hope to love other people as she taught me to love people, I'll never love anyone the way I loved her "

Looking up atto me as we made our way out of the sanctuary and back to the pew

I was very proud of him and he took ht beside Lestat I held Toht

When it ca out of the pews to get in line, and of course To to do it And on iet in line

And towhat they would have done in any case

The three of us received the sacrament

I took it in my hand as was my custom, then put it in my mouth I don't kno they took it -- whether in their hands or directly into their ue as always -- such a tinyrepulsed by my body -- and I prayed to the God who had co I was I prayed to Christ to redeem me from what I was I prayed to knohat I must do -- if there was any way, honorable or decent or moral -- for me to live