I would hang out in town and just make it home before her and hit the bed to keep my chance of that first look at her naked. Didn't take long to reali...e that I had been a fool for quite some time. With her work schedule she would stay up quite late. She would do all the things at night that others do during the day. The shower was almost the last task of the night, her relaxing was the last.This is where I learn how stupid I had been. When mom would shower, it was always very early in the. The pain was too much for me to withstand and the last thought I had was, “Mark.”This next part is going to be hard to believe, but until you have a near-death experience you won't understand it.I felt my soul leave my body that morning and I stared on, as they pulled my broken and bleeding body from the mangled remains, that was my beautiful car. I no longer felt pain or sorrow. Was this astral travel, I didn't know.The firemen and ambulance crew worked at a frenzied pace.“Am I dead? Who's. Lawyer that had represented him at the initial hearing had dropped Joseph during a pretrial discovery hearing, stating a conflict of interest. Due to the communities’ outrage and media coverage the trail date was moved up on the docket. Still for the weeks it took to go to trial there was something every night about the case on the evening news. On the first day of the trail I was in the courtroom too. Mary walked right past me and did not even notice me. She sat beside the DA. Her face was. "I'm Gully Finch. I was in the back,having some supper. What can I do for you?"Barlow pulled a package about the size of a man's clenched fist fromhis jacket. It was wrapped in brown paper and tied with a bluish-greenstring. "I want to send this back east to my wife in Atlanta. It's abirthday present for her." He set the parcel on the counter."It'll take about ten days to get there. Will that be enough time?" I think so. How much?"Finch put the package on a small brass scale. .