Spirit of the Titanic (2012)
“How I longed to be able to share my news with Ed, Charlie, and Jack but I couldn’t. The three of them stood side by side with David, my replacement, in the crowd, as Titanic prepared to pull away from Belfast to begin her maiden voyage. It was all very thrilling and I found myself much carried away by the party atmosphere on board and on the docks below, waving gaily along with everyone else, in spite of myself; but, of course, my friends could neither see nor hear me. Nobody could.
The wor...ld hadn’t ended or even changed much since I smashed up my skull that day, though Charlie’s dark hair went grey in the weeks after my fall. He was the only one to look properly sad, telling Ed that he blamed himself for not coming down the ladder to grab a hold of me.
Ed was his usual practical self. “You can’t say that, Charlie. No way. It wasn’t your fault. If you had reached him, he might’ve taken you with him. It was just one of those things.MoreLess
The wor...ld hadn’t ended or even changed much since I smashed up my skull that day, though Charlie’s dark hair went grey in the weeks after my fall. He was the only one to look properly sad, telling Ed that he blamed himself for not coming down the ladder to grab a hold of me.
Ed was his usual practical self. “You can’t say that, Charlie. No way. It wasn’t your fault. If you had reached him, he might’ve taken you with him. It was just one of those things.MoreLess
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