Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Glimpse of the Other Side

His voice was weaker. "I thought I'd die on my birthday," he said. Did he mean that he'd thought it appropriate to die on that anniversay, I wondered aloud.

"No, on Monday, which was my birthday, I really thought I was dying."
"Did you see the other side?" I asked.
"I saw something."
"Can you tell me about it?" I tried to keep my voice casual.
"All I can tell you is, it was not unpleasant."

At that point I felt that I was intruding past reasonable prying.
That was Friday. On Sunday, I got the call that he had gone to that place.

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