New Husband. Old One Gone novel · Chapter 29 of 32
Chapter 29: The Name on the Wall
Mama read the letter four more times before she let go of it.
Then she pinned it to the refrigerator under the newspaper.
She went and got Jesse's Panthers hat out of Daddy's gun safe and put it on her own head.
She wore it the rest of the day.
The seventeenth of July was the hottest day of the year.
There were no TV cameras this time. No band. No podium.
Just the wall, a canopy tent beside it, and forty folding chairs, every one full.
The woman who'd held Mama's hand on Memorial Day was there.
So were the other mothers from the front row.
One of them had brought a cooler of lemonade.
Sawyer's whole crew came in clean shirts. The foreman wore a tie.
Granddad came in his lawn chair, which Sawyer carried from the truck.
He set it up at the end of the front row and refused to sit anywhere else.
Corey came in a suit of his own now. Navy blue, off the rack, hemmed by Mama.
He'd been sober four months and two days. He'd told me that morning in the truck, to the day.
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