CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
MINA WAS FINE, SWALLOWING back all her tears. Until the final song, which played while pictures flickered by on the screen at the front of the church. Of Dale as a child with her parents, running towards the camera; of him with her as a baby in his lap, a bright smile lighting his face; of him with a newborn Maggie in his arms; of him beside Maggie, with Liam in her arms, the same beaming smile on her face. Mina choked a sob back, and Nicole's hand moved from hers to around her shoulder.
Mina glanced over at the remaining members of her family. Maggie and Liam both gave small, sobbing cries. She wondered if they really understood what this meant. She'd been a few years older than Maggie when her own father had died. Aunt June wiped tears away, and the salt-and-pepper
