Please enjoy Part Three of FIRST LOVE.
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Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head... bang bang
Maxwell's silver hammer made sure she was dead
AGE 25
SUBJECT epiphany of love
A June Wednesday found Keegan working at Avon when his boss arrived,
though a bit odd, he did that occasionally.
Keegan needed to go to the hospital, his grandmother. The extent of his pain was both profound and
intense. His grandmother was his only
family left; his parents had passed years earlier.
At the hospital, he found her, after the obvious greetings and what's the problem discussion, he sat by
her and with a voice laced with pity, in retrospect an inappropriate emotion,
he stated, "I feel so sorry for you Grammie."
She knew, he knew, that she was about to die. Boldly she stared, the way she had done
before, in a scolding manner and stated with great power and strength,
"Don't feel sorry for me. I will be
with the one I love. I am blessed that I
have love."
Grammie died. It left Keegan with
an empty place that would never quite be filled. Yes, he would accept, the grieving would
lessen, and life inevitably would bring back joy, but the hole would remain in
that distant yet tender way.
It took Keegan weeks to gather the strength to attend to her affairs,
preparing her house for sale. He
discovered a beautiful satin lined round hat box closed with a meticulously
tied violet ribbon, opening and discovering letters. His first thought was selfish, for him, and
he winced at the thought of being so vain.
Stacked with apparent painstaking precision was a pile of yellowing
letters all addressed to Grammie in a neat, manly scrawl. He didn't recognize the penmanship nor the
address, but he had an intuitive feeling who was the author. He looked at Grammie's dresser, at a framed
picture of a young, grinning, uniformed man with the same small cowlick as
Keegan.
Not deliberately sitting on the bed, more so, he simply dropped as if
the strength deserted his knees. He
lifted the pack out, noted they were in chronological order, took the first one
and opened it, feeling like a trespasser but wanting to touch that part of
Grammie, that part of the grandfather he never knew.
He began reading. Words and
phrases flowed out from amongst the midst.
My Darling... My love... You have
my heart. I will love you forever. You are my life. I miss you so greatly. And again, often, littering the page those
endless endearments... dearest...
sweetheart... honey. Teary, he
finally put them back just the way he had found them, tying the bow neatly,
knowing the letters would be stored with him forever. They would follow him forever just like his
grandfather’s love followed his grandmother.
He got it. Understood it. His grandfather had died over fifty years ago
but their love never did.
"Love is forever," he said aloud. "Forever."
TO BE CONTINUED
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