Tears and Giggles

They stand there, feeling faint, oblivious to the chirping sparrows and the budding trees on this bright spring day.

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He hadn’t seen many springs. The pastor is nervously conducting her first funeral service. Somehow she gets through it. So do they. Two small girls start to giggle. A life ends, but life goes on. Theirs too. It’s just that it will never be the same again. William Bedford