Secret affairs

Chapter 31:

It is the day for the viewing. I go and sit behind the family. They are all up front. People are shaking their heads. They are all crying. I feel so bad for them.

They have a song playing with a video of his life.

I start singing the song under my breath,

" I picked this yellow for my cutians

It's warm and true
And it looks like you

I catch sight of a
Wild bird on a long post
On a long fense

And I can see you everywhere
In the trees outside my window
On the street in the frozen air
I can see you there

There was a seed gray and small
In the groud of the earth
Between our hearts
We'll never know
What mystery made it grow
It will just be our hustory

Now I can seey you everywhere
In the trees outside my window
On the street in the frozen air
Waiting

It's a promise
Waiting
It's like a dare
But you are with me
When you can not be
I can feel you here

And I can see you everywhere
I can see you everywhere

I twist in a world between
Hovering
Wanting
But I don't wish this love away
I wish you back to me to stay

And I can see you everywhere
In the trees outside my window

On the street in the frozen air
Waiting
It's a promise
Waiting

It's like a dare
But you are with me
When you can not be
I can feel you here

And I can see you everywhere
I can see you everywhere
I can see you everywhere
Everywhere
Everywhere."

It is a very pretty song.

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We went to the funeral the next day. They do the 21 guns. They fold the flag up and hand it to Wendy. I rub her back.

When they start lowering the casket they start playing a song.

" Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Moments so dear

Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
How Do You Measure - Measure A Year?

In Daylights - In Sunsets
In Midnights - In Cups Of Coffee
In Inches - In Miles
In Laughter - In Strife

In - Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
How Do You Measure
A Year In The Life?

How About Love?
How About Love?
How About Love?
Measure In Love

Seasons of Love.
Seasons of Love.

Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Journeys To Plan

Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Six Hundred Minutes
How Do You Measure The Life
Of A Woman Or A Man

In Truth That She Learned
Or In Times That He Cried
In Bridges He Burned
Or The Way That She Died