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William leans forward and crosses his legs and continues to talk while he picks at the grass.

What I do remember very clearly is the complete unconditional love and devotion that you both gave me at all times, no matter how badly I had behaved. You were both on my side at all times, even when you knew I was lying about something.

Like the time I threw a rock and hit another boy in the head which I did not mean to do, and I ran to your side Grandad for protection and you stood up for me even though you knew I was lying.

I felt so bad about not being able to tell you the truth about what I had done and I was so ashamed of my actions that some how I believed the lie was going to save me and the truth was going to do me harm .So I stuck to the lie and for that

I have always been sorry because I realized at that very moment I had betrayed your trust and you would try but never be able to trust me fully ever again. At the time I was seven years old and it was 1965, so I got over it, but I will never know if you did.

William turns on his side, puts his arm under his head and continues to talk while tracing out the names on the head stone with his finger.

All the amazing moments and memories that we all shared.

My first pair of skates that I got for Christmas when I was two or was it three?.See it’s questions like that,that I wish you were both here so I could ask you and then give you both a hug.

The day you brought my new baby brother home from the hospital and my Mother was not there, she was still in the hospital for observation, so you reassured me everything would be alright because you knew how attached I was to my Mother.

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WILLIAM (CONT'D)

Grandad it was so great that you taught me how to play the guitar and the clarinet, and how I admired that you had played with some of the big bands of the day and that you had your own orchestra. Because of that it gave me a great appreciation for music and now I play the bongo’s and jam with a friends band. Grama all the wonderful moments helping you in the kitchen to prepare the meals, and around the house so I would know what to do and how to do it when I was older, I learned so much from both of you.

William sits up looking a little startled as he peers into the distance then he resumes his conversation while stretching, he is watching other people come and go.

I must say we had a good life, our own home on a nice street,a beautiful cottage on an amazing lake up north,my own boat at age thirteen. A house in Florida, that I got to spend two weeks out of every year at over Christmas holidays. The new Cadillac that you bought every two years to treat yourself, for all the hard work and the good fortune that you both had, and not to mention the statues it gave me in the neighbourhood with the rest of our friends. Sometimes I felt bad for others that did not have as much as we did but other times I was proud of our families accomplishments and our ability to make it in a world that was all about making it.

William changes his stretching positions, neck and shoulder

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The fishing trips and boat rides and water skiing. Long wonderful journeys in the car with tea and sandwiches and music and laughter, to interesting places to meet fascinating people. All the time tolerating my lunacy, and laughing at my corny sense of humor. How could I ever thank you both, for all the wonderful things, that you have done for me.

William takes the wrapped box off of the head stone and places it beside him as he touches it and focuses on it as he talks.

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