"The Reunion"
Through the years she had thought many times about the events of that evening.
Was it merely a coincidence that she had seen Shoo-Fly the very night after she had held the small sprig of parsley tightly in her hands,
talking to him as she held it,
asking that he show himself so she would know that he was o'k.
or had there been more to it than just coincidence?
The parsley sprig represented their first meeting and the bond they shared.
Had love and the strength of this bond reached the ears of her absent friend,
even though they may have been blocks apart?
Was this why she had seen him the very next evening?
Of course she never knew,
but she had often wondered.
But on Mother's Day, May 9th. of 1999,
there had not been a bond strong enough on the earth to bring him back to her this time...
for this was the day he was taken to the Bridge.
"Oh, Shoo", she said aloud in a voice so weak it was just barely above a whisper.
"Why did you have to leave me that day?"
And now in her mind and heart,
she returned once again to that fateful day,
a day once hated, but eventually loved,
for it, too, held the memory of her precious friend.
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The beloved face
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