song_tra_bong: (if i die in a combat zone)
Mary Anne Bell ([personal profile] song_tra_bong) wrote in [personal profile] no_sin_but 2008-06-02 04:32 am (UTC)

Mary Anne has never been to a funeral.

You didn't bury people in Vietnam.

Tagging and bagging your best friend is not a funeral.

There is something rising here--like a tide, like a wave--the anticipation for when this procession of the living peters out and it becomes a procession of the dead. Everyone is waiting to see her. Everyone is waiting to say goodbye.

Mary Anne's fingers tighten on Kit's arm and she hangs on.

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