Chapter 16
Matt thought for a moment before replying. “1974 that was a bad year for me, I lost my mother and three out of four of my grandparents. Yeah, ‘74 really sucked.”
Sue noticed he was staring straight ahead, yet he seemed to be looking at nothing and stayed that way for some time. She had no wish to break his chain of thought so she just waited for him to come back.
“Sorry I seem to have drifted”
“That’s okay, I do it sometimes.”
“Both my grandfathers died within weeks of each other, it was the passing of two great titans. Nan Alice died six weeks later of a broken heart. Aunt Al had died of leukaemia some months earlier, sad times.”
Sue could see the pain in his face, even after all these years it still had an effect on him, “I’m sorry.”
“Why? You never knew them, they’re j
