A Holiday Yarn
“All through town, people paused in the middle of eating breakfast or watching the morning news. They pulled their eyes away from the morning paper or stood silent in the line at Coffee's, the only sound in the shop the hiss of the espresso machine.
It was instinctive, spontaneous, the reverence due to the dead.
Nell pulled her eyes away from the Sea Harbor Gazette and looked toward the window, as if she could see the bells in the hilltop steeple and the Pisano family, gathered together ...in the beautiful old church. "It's a shame they kept the funeral so private. People need closure," Nell said.
"It was for the mother," Ben said. "The family thought it would be best to have a small service, nothing afterward. The police haven't released Pamela's body yet, but Father Larry put together something meaningful, I'm sure. It makes sense." "She's being cremated," Izzy piped up from her place beside the island. She sat on top of a kitchen stool pouring half-and-half into a large coffee mug.MoreLess
It was instinctive, spontaneous, the reverence due to the dead.
Nell pulled her eyes away from the Sea Harbor Gazette and looked toward the window, as if she could see the bells in the hilltop steeple and the Pisano family, gathered together ...in the beautiful old church. "It's a shame they kept the funeral so private. People need closure," Nell said.
"It was for the mother," Ben said. "The family thought it would be best to have a small service, nothing afterward. The police haven't released Pamela's body yet, but Father Larry put together something meaningful, I'm sure. It makes sense." "She's being cremated," Izzy piped up from her place beside the island. She sat on top of a kitchen stool pouring half-and-half into a large coffee mug.MoreLess
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