We were among the last to arrive, as most people had driven the short journey from the crematorium to the hotel.
The crematorium was a busy place and the parking spaces were needed, I supposed.
I’m not sure I’d like to be burned. I think I might like to be fed to zoo animals.
It would be both environmentally friendly and a lovely treat for the larger carnivores.
Could you request that? I wondered. I made a mental note to write to the WWF in order to find out.
I went up to Keith and told him how very sorry I was, and then I sought out Gary to say the same thing.
Both of them looked overwhelmed, which was understandable. It takes a long time to learn to live with loss, assuming you ever manage it.
After all these years, I’m still something of a work in progress in that regard.
The grandchildren sat quietly in the corner, cowed, perhaps, by the somber atmosphere.
The other person I had to pass on my condolences to was Laura, but I couldn’t spot her.
She was usually easy to find. Today, as well as the huge sunglasses, she’d been wearing vertiginous heels, a short black dress with a plunging neckline
and her hair was piled on top of her head in an artful birdcage creation that added several inches to her height.
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