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Just Finished Dinner
We just finished our dinner and I'd gone into the den and to turn on the Television. She walked in and kissed me on the cheek like a million times before and she said, "Honey I know it's late, but if you don't mind, my shopping's gotten a little behind so I think I'll drive downtown to the grocery store."
Well, I didn't look up, just nodded ok and asked her to hand me an ashtray. When she did, I reached over and squeezed her hand and then she left. I shuttered a minute at the thought of my world without her in it. I reassuringly sought the touch of my wedding band.
I must have been dozing cause I didn't hear the door. I thought now that's strange, I'd never done that before. But I looked up and she was standing by my chair. "Kinda snuck in on me," I said. She smiled and nodded her head. I told her that she looked just like an angel standing there.
For a long moment she didn't say a thing, then she caressed her gold wedding ring. I thought I saw a teardrop in her eye. "Honey, you'll never know how much I love you," she said. I thought of the many years we'd been wed as I told her that no one can be as happy as I.
Then, the strangest feeling filled the room, not one of happiness, but of gloom. For the first time in my life I saw sadness in her face. I reached out to touch her and she drew away. She told me again that ours was a love that time could never erase.
Then I thought I heard a thousand voices singing, but I realized it was the telephone ringing. That's when I saw the halo surrounding her pretty hair.
I turned trembling to the received and heard a cold voice say that there had been a wreck out on the highway. I knew that when I looked back and she wouldn't be there.
Because it was an angel's way of saying our last good-bye.
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