PAULA
This isn't happening. It shouldn't
be and it can't be. I shouldn't be sitting here at my son's memorial service,
next to his wife and children, listening to him be referred to in the past
tense. "Tim was ..." I hate the way that sounds.
To think that I held as a baby the
man we're remembering and crying over now ... It's almost too much. I can't
even begin to count the hours I've spent crying, thinking, aching over
these past few weeks. My little boy -- he's gone now. There were so many
times that I just held him and told him everything would be all right ...
but when it came down to it, there was nothing I could do for him.
He is--he was a good son, a good
husband, and a good father. He was a good man. He didn't deserve this.
And we didn't even have any time to prepare. If only we could have had
a few last minutes ...
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