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Chance | Oct 08 2005

I’ve often said I’d give anything to talk to him again, but what would I actually say, if given the chance? I don’t think he would understand any of it, nor do I think I could really tell him anything. It would be like it is with other people. You want to reach out, but what do you have to reach with? Also, he’d be old now. 94. His sister-in-law, my great-aunt, is the last one left in his generation. She weighs seventy pounds and sleeps all the time. Would I sit by his bed as I sit by hers and hold his hand as I hold hers and smile when he opens his eyes and say nothing, as I do with her, her eyes like mine but so much older?