A War of the Heart — Chapter 7
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The evening wore on with more family dropping in. Members of Regina’s church visited for a few minutes and left after praying over Chad. They were polite, though Suzanne felt a wall between them and her family. They were all there for Chad, but a wall still separated them.
A few members of Mabel’s church also made an appearance. Everyone brought food. There was no chance of going hungry. There was so much that Suzanne invited the nursing staff to have some as a thank you. They all took part.
Each visitation hour, Suzanne and Regina went in. At first, Jean protested, but Regina had a talk with her privately in the hall. She went every third visit instead with Regina. Suzanne was okay with that. She just wanted the entire ordeal to be over with.
Regina and Jean walked out of the ten o’clock visitation, looking as haggard as everyone else was who had been there for all those hours. Suzanne looked up from her phone where she had been texting a friend who lived in Texas.
Jean walked to her husband and whispered in his ear. He woke up and nodded. Jean picked up her purse and went over to where her mother and sat back down by Mabel.
