Sweet Magnolia, Can You Hear Me?

Eleven

"Hello, you've reached Northway Hospital's Psychiatric Unit. This is Lindsay."

"It's Jude."

"It's not Maggie, but there is someone that wants to talk to you."

"Um, okay."

"Jude?"

"Mrs. Lux?"

"My husband wants to talk with you, but I wanted to speak to you first."

"What's going on? Is Maggie okay?"

"I don't think it's a good idea for you two to talk, Jude."

"That's not up to you."

"She's only gotten worse since you started calling her."

"How would you know? This is the first time you've ever bothered to visit her."

"You have no right to speak to me that way after the pain your family has put my family through."

"I'll admit that my father has caused your family a lifetime of pain, but you've put my mom and I through hell for the mistake he made."

"You don't know what it's like to lose a child, Jude. To bury your child. Your mother doesn't know the pain I'm in."

"I lost my best friend and my father that night, Mrs. Lux. I had to bury my best friend and then my dad the next day. So you have no right to tell me what pain my mother and I are allowed to be in."

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