Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father Page #3

I had to go look up St. John's

on the map

when he got accepted there.

I knew,

"That's over in the east coast."

He's now engaged

to this lovely girl,

and he's gonna go to med school.

It was great.

Graduation, he was in shorts.

Hold on a second.

We'll come back to this.

But before we go any further,

you've got to know

what happened.

The whole truth.

So here it is.

A couple of policemen met us

at the airport in Pittsburgh.

Took us over to the hospital.

Bill and Clark picked us up

and took us over to Bacha's

Funeral Home in Greensburg.

And then he took us

down a stairway.

Gurney at the other end...

with a white sheet over a body.

And...

...went over to him and when

we could see his face...

...I said, "It's really him."

I kissed him and held him,

and Kate kissed him and held him

and kissed him some more.

Tears are dropping on him,

of course,

and Kate went to wipe

one of those away off his cheek,

and a plug came out where he'd

been shot in the left cheek.

Oh, God.

She pushed it back in

and cried some more.

After that, I lost it.

I just ran outside and screamed.

I was so f***ing mad,

I couldn't see straight.

God damn it, I hated.

I've never hated like that.

Didn't even know who I hated.

Didn't know who it was then.

Just knew that somebody

purposely put him there.

Whoever that is is a monster.

Well, who hurt him?

A very bad person.

Which bad person?

- A lady?

- Mm-hmm.

What's her name?

Shirley.

Shirley?

Why'd she kill him?

I couldn't figure out who

she was in relation to Andrew

since Andrew talked a lot

about women

but never really

mentioned her.

Collette,

this is Bagby's new girlfriend.

Makes me sick to my stomach now,

but I was so excited

that he was dating somebody.

Come on, Shirley.

Get out from behind him.

I knew he'd been struggling

with me moving on

and dating other people.

- Or maybe you will.

- You already met me!

I was excited at the thought

that maybe he had found somebody

that he, you know,

could really be happy with.

But it didn't turn out that way.

- Did you know her?

- Yeah.

Do you remember

when they started dating?

Mm-hmm.

She just kind of appeared,

and then she was there

all the time all of a sudden.

And just didn't seem suited

for him.

He did say that there was

a considerable age difference.

And then the second time

I heard him talk about it,

he actually fessed

to the age difference,

and I was like, "Holy sh*t!"

Shirley's got three kids!

Whoo-hoo!

Me, I always had to give him

a hard time,

so I'd tease him

about nailing grandma.

And she seemed so incongruous

with who

I would picture him with.

A person like that isn't just,

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