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Chapter 19 Last Words

It is astonishing to discover, amid a number of telephone messages from the previous two days, these words of Ray’s which are the last words of his I will hear.

This call made early Sunday morning when I was en route to the hospital, which I hadn’t known he had made.

Ray hadn’t mentioned the call to me—it was of so little consequence, or seemed so—and so what a shock to hear this so-familiar voice on the tape, intimate as if he were in the room with me.

Honey? This is your honey calling . . . If you want to talk can you call? Lots of love to my honey and kitties.