They Laughed When I Left, So I Came Home the Town's Doctor novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: Three Days

Sanna's POV

They moved Leena on Sunday, at eight in the morning, in a thin cold rain.

There were only five of us.

The pastor, my mother, Paavo with an umbrella over her, Tuomas, and me.

We had left the twins with the neighbor and promised them a picnic at the new place when the sun came out.

The stone was plain gray granite, and the stonecutter had finished it Friday.

LEENA PELTO AHOLA, it said. WIFE OF EERO. And under it, in smaller letters: MOTHER OF ONNI AND HELMI.

I stood at the edge of the Ahola plot at Zion with my hand over my mouth.

Eero lay on one side.

Now she lay on the other.

For seven years the two of them had lain at opposite ends of town.

The pastor read the psalm.

When he finished, my mother began to sing, in Finnish, in a high cracked voice, and Paavo joined in underneath her.

At the iron gate on the road, a woman in a camel coat stood with her hands folded.

She stayed there for the entire service.

She didn't come closer, and none of us looked at her.

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