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Show 271 I am feeling a bit like a bumper sticker slogan and we both understand her wry smile at the cliche but I am nevertheless seeing a picture in my mind. "I would take my whole family into the mountains. We'd go for a hike together, way up high where cars can't go," I am saying and there is a lump coming into my throat at the impossibility of this dream. "We'd have a wonderful gourmet picnic lunch." The picture is so strong that I cannot continue sharing it. I am choking back tears. "Yeah," Faith is saying. "You haven't made this up." Wiping my tears from my face, I nod my head in reluctant agreement. It is both a relief and a life sentence. |