And also reports of final words, final moments, final breaths:
– So afterwards he is going to have to take time off .
– I am sorry. (Or – ‘I love you’ would have done equally well. On the phone she is sounding shaky ).
– I can’t hear you, she says.
-I am sorry. (a bad connection)
-I can’t hear you.
It goes on like this, until the phone cuts out. Saying I am sorry (or I love you), while the whole world is listening in. An apology or an avoidance strategy; – ‘Go on darling, you are whispering. Say it louder’ – I can’t they will hear me’.
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