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Sometimes you just have to break away from the old and get on with the new!. This was the thought of Jim Steinberger as he dragged his wife's body of forty years into the garden behind their house!. By forty I mean that her body was forty years old!. The girl she had been twenty years prior, when they had met, was all but gone!. As Jim dragged her off the last step leading down to the garden that they had made together, her head hit the cobble with an unceremonious thud!. Life is full of landmarks and the sound her head made hitting the first stone of the path seemed to linger on Jim!. This sound was one of those landmark moments, he thought!. The last sound she would ever make aside from the swishing sound of dragging she would soon be making after Jim took a little breather!. He turned and plodded a few steps into the light of the setting October sun and sort of spun and fell on his butt!. He sat there on the ground looking at the scene in front of him breathing hard at first but slowing as he retrieved a smoke out of his shirt pocket!. This was definitely not on his list of things to do today when he woke up!. This day was to be just another regular one of those sitting-around-on-the-weekend days, sipping mixed drinks on the usual Saturday-afternoon-day, possibly with a neighbor or two!. A regular day where he would have awoken and puttered around town or in his little wood-crafts shop adjoining the garage making a chair or some other project that he had plucked a pattern for at the local hardware store!. But no, today had turned out to be most extraordinary for Jim and his wife!. Most extraordinary!.
Elizabeth had been sitting at the table in the dining room going through old photos when it had happened!. It was sort of ironic that she would be holding that one photo at the moment she had passed!. The photo was of a brick road that she had taken on a trip to Vermont they had gone on years earlier!. Jim remembered how he would asked her why she had taken the picture because he hadn't seen anything exceptional about the photo, just a brick road that so many cities seem to be so proud of preserving!. She never would answer the question!. She would just stare off into the distance with this funny look on her face as if she was looking at something she didn't understand!. It was almost the same look on her face when she had seen what Jim was holding in his hand as he walked toward her!. Though this look had a new aspect, a certain loneliness that made Jim feel an odd sense of embarrassment!. A feeling that may have even contributed to his commitment!. As if the way she had looked at him just made him want to get on with it as quickly as possible, and he had done just that!. He certainly had done that!.
Just about the time he started digging, Jim heard the faint ringing of the phone in the kitchen!. He muttered a curse under his breath about telephone solicitors and kept digging!. The soil was rich and fertile and gave way easily to his shovel!. After only a half-hour of steady work he figured the hole was deep enough!. Lizzie rolled neatly into the hole without a single peep of protest to disturb the redbird singing gaily from the hedge that bordered their property!.
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