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Instead of me feeling outrage or broken, I was
elated. I read the note, she said for me to find my happiness and when I
realized it was with her and the kids, she’d be waiting and to find them, she
was at her mother’s. I … didn’t bother. I didn’t call her mother, I didn’t
reach out. I went to the bar, I had fun and never looked for my family. Until
…just about two weeks pass and suddenly, I got this sick feeling in the pit in
my stomach. Loneliness. I came home, I sat in the kids’ room, and I thought,
maybe she had something. Yeah .. She had something. I cried. I needed them. She
knew. It was that second when I decided to pick up the phone to call and beg
her to come home, that the phone rang. Janice was on her way back home and was
in an accident. A bad one.”
    Hearing this caused me to gasp.
It wasn’t what I expected.
    “Her mother lived three hundred
miles away, yet, the accident happened eighteen miles up the road. The station
wagon was hit by a tractor trailer. Janice was killed and all four of my kids
were in the hospital. And as a miracle, the baby survived. They delivered him.
Early, but he lived. I spent the last thirty years being the best I could be,
the father and grandfather I needed to be. I never remarried, to me, I was
still married to her.”
    “If you’d go, what resolution do
you hope to find?” Brad asked.
    “Resolution? I don’t know if
there can be one. I’d like to know if she watches. If not, I want to tell her
about the family, how big it is. How she is a part of our lives every single
day, no matter how long she’s been gone. I need to tell her she was right. That
this is my life, that this is where my happiness is. But most of all, I need to
know if she knew,” Travis said. “Knew I loved her more than life itself and
regret every single second of my life for letting her walk out that door.”

9. BILL – A VIEW FROM BEYOND
     
    Call me cautious, although there
are some who would say I was cowardly. Sending Natalie out to do my work, when
I actually knew who I wanted to be picked. Although I gave her free will to
choose, and would abide and accept those she did select, I used influence to
guide her in the right direction.
    Perhaps that wasn’t fair.
    Travis needed heard. If I relied
solely on his email to Natalie, she never would have listened to Travis and in
turn, wouldn’t have placed him on the top of her list.
    The general public has a two week
attention span when it comes to newsworthy stories. Once it hits the circuit,
in two weeks people have forgotten and moved on. In order for Natalie to be
taken seriously, we had to operate and move fast in that two weeks. After that,
people would forget and lose interest.
    It was a lot to accomplish in two
weeks and for that, Natalie needed help. Brad was a great asset, and Artie’s
intervention was, excuse the pun, a Godsend. But she needed more. Someone with
the ground work already in place.
    Aside from guiding her to the
‘source’, I had to face the fact that I had questions to answer. Again, maybe
the source would answer those questions. In any event, I would be there.
    It had been days since we spoke,
surprisingly, Natalie hadn’t presented me with the list of questions that Brad
had drawn up. I was waiting and ready, but glad I didn’t have to face it. She
wasn’t handling her quest very well. She was doing a great job, but emotionally
it was taking its toll. Another reason, she had to get it done fast.
    Before long, hearing everyone’s
heartache and need for resolution would drain her and cause an inability to
finish the question. Of that I was one hundred percent certain. Time to step in
…. Again.

10. The Called - BOTTOM OF A BOTTLE
     
    When traveling in a twenty-two
foot RV, things weren’t as easy as pulling into the first parking spot and
going about my business. When Bill informed me we were taking a detour, I was
concerned. Especially since we were headed back to Oklahoma. A little town,