Gated by J D Ventura

Author:J D Ventura [Ventura, J D]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781543955118
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2019-07-08T18:30:00+00:00

The entire week after the doctors had told them, essentially, that Sam was destined to fade away, his personality and memories left to slowly erode like a dune exposed to a cruel, relentless sea, she had taken comfort in routine. She’d cleaned out all their junk drawers, dry-cleaned winter sweaters, steam-cleaned the rugs and taken five garbage bags of old clothes to the Salvation Army. Then, on the first Saturday following that ill-fated doctor’s appointment, she’d found herself sitting alone in her car in the parking lot of an IKEA. She’d taken her first Xanax, and washed it down with the beginnings of her second bottle of wine since relapsing, sitting in her car in an Ikea parking lot, overwhelmed by a once-tamed sense. The tune came on the car’s satellite radio, the lyrics dreamy and sorrowful.

She allowed herself to weep then, allowed herself to imagine, for the first time, the true meaning of what they faced. Dreams would have to be edited. Expectations adjusted. The road before them was no longer boundless. It had never been, this she knew. But the impertinence of this doctor to tell her so, to neatly surmise, in the most clinical of terms, that their journey would come to an end, and she would be left with and without him. She cried, allowing the lyrics to pry open the steel box in which she had hid her pain.

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