He Broke the Heart That Saved Him novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Marietta
We buried Timmy on a Thursday, in Marietta, under a sky the color of dishwater.
The church was the small white one on Fourth Street, where they had held my father's service.
It was full.
Women from the closed bakery came in their church coats.
Bev's old nurse friends came, six of them in a row, and a bus driver who had once let Timmy sit up front.
The coffin was small and white.
I had not known they made them that size until I had to choose one.
Dane came in after the first hymn.
He wore a black suit that fit him, and no tie, and he stood at the very back by the door.
People turned to look.
They knew who he was by now, because the whole town read the Cleveland papers online.
I did not turn.
I held Bev's hand, and the minister talked about a boy who loved dogs, and I heard maybe a third of it.
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