20 Minutes To Change A Life by Daniel Hurst

Author:Daniel Hurst [Hurst, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calibre
Published: 2021-03-03T23:00:00+00:00

April *

15:56

April Adams certainly didn’t belong in a place like this.

A windswept graveyard on a blustery afternoon was not the kind of place a thirty-year-old-woman should be spending her time. She should have been at work building her career or with friends having fun. Instead, she was here on her own with a bunch of flowers in one hand and a small bottle of Prosecco in the other.

Making her way past the numerous headstones that stuck up from the grass in the shadow of a large church, April carried on in the direction of the gravestone she was searching for. She had been here once before, so she knew the way to go, but that didn’t mean she wanted to be here or would enjoy any of the time she would spend in this environment. Cemeteries were grim places at the best of times, glaring reminders of the fact that everybody dies one day, but they were even worse when you knew a loved one who was buried in one. April knew one of the people buried here, and while she had accepted that she was never going to see her best friend again, every step she took in the direction of her gravestone was another punch to her broken heart.

Passing by a well-maintained gravestone that had recently received an offering of fresh flowers, April was reminded of the fact that she wasn’t the only one in the world mourning the loss of a loved one. Numerous other people would visit this place, from widows to grieving parents, but while it wasn’t the nicest place to be, there were still plenty of reminders of the good that came when a person passed away.

Heartfelt dedications inscribed into headstones, beautiful bouquets of flowers laid respectfully on the ground, and many references to the accomplishments of the people who had been lost, showing that they had lived rich and full lives before they had been taken from this world.

“Loving son.”

“Fantastic father.”

“Beloved wife.”

“Beautiful baby boy.”

Every headstone here was not only a reminder of a fate that would befall us all but also an account of just how much that person meant to those left behind. Reading several of these headstones as she passed them was enough to warm April’s heart, and it was certainly more effective than the cold wind that was whistling around her.

Up ahead and to the left of the long rows of headstones were a dozen or so people who were making their way into the church as part of the congregation for the afternoon service. Most of them were elderly, their heads bowed as they looked to get out of the blustery weather and take a seat inside on one of the pews where it was surely a lot warmer than it was out here. But there was to be no respite for April as she continued her journey deeper into the cemetery before finally laying eyes on the headstone she was here to see.

The chunky slab of marble was

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