1:30:06
There's nothing like a brush with mortality
to teach you to appreciate life.
1:30:11
A little bite of death
can help you grow up real quick.
1:30:17
Mom got out of the hospital a few days later.
1:30:20
She walked with a limp for a while.
About a month later she was back at work.
1:30:25
She tried to quit smoking
and for a little while, she did.
1:30:29
Then I came back for spring break
a day early and there she was....
1:30:37
We had a couple of pretty good years
after that.
1:30:39
I visited her most every weekend.
1:30:43
We'd play gin rummy or talk politics
until all hours.
1:30:47
Had a bucket-Ioad of laughs,
as she liked to say.
1:31:03
Mom?
1:31:19
Then one night...
1:31:22
she stopped laughing.
1:31:35
I will never forget
and always regret the choice I'd made.
1:31:40
The memory of that night
out on the Old Ridge Road never faded...
1:31:44
and grew dreamlike, as I expected it would.
1:31:50
I'm sorry, Mom.