5 Minutes

After being put off for two days My Beloved was finally permitted to see his mother for a few minutes. Apparently she had not wanted him to know of her death until after the fact. We are honestly puzzled by this but since My Beloved is the family scapegoat we can only assume he is guilty of some misdeed of which he knows nothing. He was forbidden to speak while he was in the room and was sternly prohibited from touching her either. A few hours later she died but remarkably they didn't try to blame this on him. This morning we had to tell his 90 year old grandmother that she had out-lived her only child. "Oh me," she said.