last monologue

Lambert 2022-04-21 09:01:56

It's been two weeks since I lost him. I have been gaven my notice now. My first donation is in a month of time. I come here and imagine, this is the spot where everything I lost since my childhood has washed up. I tell myself, if that was true and I've wait long enough, then the tiny figure would appear on the horizon accross the field, and gradually get large until I see it was Tommy.
He'd wave, and maybe call. I don' t let fantasy go be on that. I can't let it. I remind myself, I was lucky to could have anytime with him at all. What I'm not sure about is if our life is been so different form the life of people we save. We all will complete, maybe none of us really understant what we've lived through, or feel we've had enought time.

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  • Kathy: It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I'd known, maybe I'd have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart.

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    Kathy: My name is Kathy H. I'm 28 years old. I've been a carer for nine years. And I'm good at my job. My patients always do better than expected, and are hardly ever classified as agitated, even if they're about to make a donation. I'm not trying to boast, but I feel a great sense of pride in what we do. Carers and donors have achieved so much. That said, we aren't machines. In the end it wears you down. I suppose that's why I now spend most of my time not looking forwards, but looking back, to The Cottages and Hailsham, and what happened to us there. Me. Tommy. And Ruth.