“I got closer to her. I mean, I would have. I—” “You’re freaking me out. You’re acting not quite yourself.”
Nora nodded. “Yes, I... I just... yes, I think you’re right... I think it’s just the tablets...”
She remembered her mother, in her final months, saying: “I don’t know what I would have done without you.”
She’d probably said it to Joe too. But in this life, she’d had neither of them.
Then Priya arrived into the room. Grinning, clutching her phone and some kind of a clipboard. “It’s time,” she said.
The Tree That Is Our Life
Five minutes later Nora was back in the hotel’s vast conference room.
At least a thousand people were watching the first speaker conclude her presentation.
The author of Zero to Hero. The book Dan had beside his bed in another life.
But Nora wasn’t really listening, as she sat in her reserved seat in the front row.
She was too upset about her mother, too nervous about the speech,
so she just picked up the odd word or phrase that floated into her mind like croutons in minestrone.
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