We're sitting on the couch, watching cartoons.
"You know, death came last night."
My head whips around. "What, honey?"
"Death came last night."
My mind is searching all of the various words that I could be misinterpreting that comment into. Can't come up with anything. "Death, honey?"
"Yeah, you know, Death, the other hospice nurse."
"Oh, Henry, her name is Beth."
"Oh, yeah, Beth..."
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- Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
- The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
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7 comments:
:) Glad it was only Beth.
You caught me off guard there, and I laughed :-)
I'm glad that there are still some moments that can make you laugh right now.
wow, what a scary moment, if you believe that sometimes people know it is their time. Glad it wasn't this time.
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...truelol...
Too funny.
I, of course, had visions of henry describing the specters from A Christmas Carol or something similar.
...sigh... that was too rich.
...tom...
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From the mouth of babes - - -
Hahahahahaha. In the hospital the pedi onc kids I worked with always had a way better sense of humor than their parents anyway :-). ~Mary
Out of the mouth of babes! (Hugs)Indigo
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