Alex knew his grandmother was missing her friends, who had all gone before her and had passed away. Beth was the last of her peers and the inevitable loneliness was setting in. He knew she was simply being realistic when she told him that she had outlived her usefulness, even if her family was telling her otherwise.
"I'm getting too old. I don't want to be a relic," she pouted at him, with a tinge of sadness in her voice. "Or a history book that people refer to when they want to know more about an earlier time."
"You're not that, Beth," he tried to reassure her gently, but knowing behind his words that she was right.
"I only want to live long enough to see you finally happy, Alexander."
The very first sneak peek into "The Redemption of Alexander."
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Published on November 25, 2013 02:11