She asked havent you gone. I said no aunty I was watching tv. She asked me how her new saree was. I said aunty you look so beautiful than the saree. I...asked what surprise she said it was her anniversary and she was going to the temple and I went to my house…Next day my mom did not go to the work because she had taken 5 days leave. Then in 5 days school started and I didnt see aunty for 1omonth because of my 11th extra classes daily. One day I got leave for completing the practical. I went to. It’s a seeper. It’ll bleed a little bit all day until it looks like I cut my thumb off. The problem is that it hurts.”“It happens all of the time.”“What do you do about it?”“I suck it up.”Tim returned to wrestling with the closet. Benny was just putting up one curtain rod after another ignoring everything else around him. Sandra’s father went back to what he was doing.It didn’t take them long to finish all of the last minute detail work that put the house into shape. They gathered in the living. I have no idea why he chose me to tell his story but he did say that he hoped that by telling me, “he could rest in peace.” It has not helped me rest in peace. I have told the story to Emerald in hopes he could write it and share it in a way that I cannot.1. The actual reason why the woman was identified as the wife was that at the time they were killed they were in coital union.2. Eligible men were in short supply in post-war Germany and many single women did have children by “man unknown.” . We'd already spent half the day going through his stuff when we came across a rather unexpected surprise. I had pulled out one of the drawers on his desk to empty it of the final bits of scattered debris, loose paperclips, post it notes, the odd change scattered here and there, and even a few odd looking nuts and bolts that were certainly out of place. When I did that, I discovered something that we might otherwise have missed. Or rather Danny did anyway, as I emptied the drawer into the waste.