“Actually, you should know, one of the last few days of his life, when he was in and out of consciousness, he called out, ‘Grace, oh Grace, yes, t...hank you, oh, thank you,’ in a strained voice,” Emma comforts her. Tears begin to fall down Grace’s face, hearing this. Could it be, in the end, besides longing for his wife, he also treasured her too?Grace opens the first package, the necklace, and smiles and then laughs through her tears, “This was one of the gifts your father had me buy for your. But I guess thinking about it and remembering what she'd been yapping about over the phone gave me the idea that she was probably waiting for me either by the truck or in it.It must have been about two or three a.m. and I was really starting to feel it when a truck stopped in front of me. I hadn't been hitchhiking, the truck just pulled over. I was too tired to even move around it so I just kept walking.The guy driving the truck lowered his window as I passed."Hey buddy," he called. "Do you. Lani remembered when they'd met in college. Even with her, Dee had resisted friendship. Lani had been in the student center checking her mail, and turned to find herself hemmed in by a circle of swaggering freshman guys. Dee had muscled her way in, casting an evil eye on each one of them, and they had suddenly decided Lani wasn't worth their time. Once they were gone, Dee had changed; her eyes slid to the floor and she barely acknowledged Lani's words of thanks.It had taken weeks of persistence. Nancy lay still. Nothing would ever be the same again.He rolled from her without saying a word, and Nancy could hear him putting on his pajamas. She just lay as he left her, flat on her stomach, with her legs still wide apart on the mattress.“It’s time to leave,” Nancy told Barry the next day.“Leave? To go where?”“I don’t know where you’re going, but I’m going to try my luck in Hollywood.”“Like I said before, Nancy you’re.