Remembered Too Late

hospital fo

s, Roger sent no c

ly forgotten that he had a

ery day. She cared for me while

in a stranger's tone. "Ms. Josie Walton will travel out of town for a one-

ied quickly. "Unde

finitely pass the

derate for tactfully disappearing

urth day, I pulled out t

d the discharge procedures an

I asked Sonya to

again on that house filled

g on the nightstand in the bedroom, next to

brightly while his expr

photos from the bedroom and the living room. I

d. "Tha

"Josie, are you really sure about this? O

istant sky hung gray and heavy

n would break thr

world is so big. There has to be a p

glanced back at the city where I

outh, my lov

all of it b

slowly and carried me t

alton h

accident and in Roger

n, I was j

n who lived