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As soon as she spoke, he knew something was wrong. Her voice thick with crying, so shaky and raw. He stood in the doorway, still frozen in place; surprise and uncertainty masking his face. Her hand still reaching for the doorbell, she looked up and said, "I didn't know where I was going... I'm sorry... my feet must have carried me here." She took a step forward and fell, he reached out his arms. And in the light from the streetlamps he saw the face he once loved. He saw her face streaked with dirt and with blood...

She said, “There's been an accident... Oh God, I'm not feeling too well... and I'm sorry... but I couldn't stop thinking, if this is really it... here, right now... If this is the last time that I close my eyes, I wanted them to look into your eyes just one last time." Then something inside of him broke as he grasped for the phone. In a voice choked with tears he stammered, "It's my girl- ... I mean... my ex- ... she needs help." The telephone slipped through his fingers; he held her in his arms. And he whispered... or he prayed... "Everything's going to be all right." "Please, God... let her be all right…"

She said, "Hold me... the room's getting dim…" Then her mouth whispered something he could barely hear. "If I die tonight, please let it be here in your arms." "I'm so sorry..." he gasped through the tears, "Love, I'm sorry... sorry for all of this. But I promise you, I'll never leave you again."

And all the way to the hospital room, he held her hand. And spent the next two nights desperately praying from a chair across the room from her bed. On Tuesday she opened her eyes and whispered three words, and he kissed her and whispered them back with a smile. And he breathed a prayer to the sky of soft gratitude… "She's okay... she's alright... thank You..."

credits

from A Ghost in the Photograph, released March 27, 2008
Violin by Loren Stallcop.

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