She heard a knock on the door.‘Sam, Sam speak to me. You can’t stay in there forever. We need to get things straight.’She lay on the bed with th... pillows over her head willing him to go away.I’d never felt so grateful for spending my gap year in France. It had given me the chance to practice the French I’d learned in school. By the end of the year, I’d become very good and I certainly needed it now. Few of the hospital staff spoke good enough English to explain everything that had to be done,. Something that had happened to her when she was a teenager, like them ... something that she'd never told anybody about. Even decades later, nobody knew."It's late," she said. "Why don't we pick this up tomorrow?" You mean we aren't finished?" moaned Mallory."Of course we're not finished. This isn't something like trying a new food. This isn't some TV show you've watched and now you're ready to flip the channel to something else." Oh," said Mallory, looking sheepish."I'm sorry," said Bob."Oh,. She has her eyes shut with a big smile on her face while she plays ’I Believe’ from memory as it’s her favourite Frankie Laine song.“Every time I hear a newborn baby cry or touch a leaf or see the skyThen I know why I believe.Why I believe.”The audience is silent while the last notes fade off into the walls. Then they break out with applause at the lovely rendition of the song. The spotlights fade out and the stage is black again.A bright blue spotlight comes up on Greta standing in the middle. If he died, who would come to his funeral? A few colleagues, especially Mary and his supervising partner, Zack, would show up. Angela would certainly come. Would any of his family come? They were not close, either in relationship or in distance.Frank resolved to update his will. Angela, and perhaps eventually Jennifer, could make better use of his money than his distant cousins or the state.After the funeral they went home to receive the last few awkward visits, and to finish packing..