“More than one more day,” he had whispered, another part of our family shorthand. The reference was to a line from a movie, Richard Lester’s Robin and Marian. “I love you more than even one more day,” Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marian says to Sean Connery as Robin Hood after she has given them both the fatal potion. John had whispered this every time he left the ICU.

