A couple of weeks later, Lisa sat next to Cal, his hand gripped tightly in hers as a woman talked about the death of her son. She wept, and she wasn’t the only one. Lisa had sucked back her own tears a half-dozen times, and she didn’t even know any of these people.
Yet there was a sense of family here among them. Lisa had never spent a Monday as well as she had this one, and the meeting wasn’t even over yet.
No wonder Cal liked coming to these. They were full of good memories of dear people, and Lisa really liked thinking of them as still with their loved ones here on Earth.
When the meeting ended—Cal hadn’t said a word—they stood and started chatting with the Chief of Police of all people. Lisa liked Chief Gardner, and they’d chit-chatted a little bit about how his daughter was doing b
