Pleaseturn offyour cell phonesinthe venue. Please do not frequentlystand up for photo taking, orwalk back and forth down the aisle, or talk in a loud voice.
She'd come out of surgery the day before, screaming all night, but we were used to that in one another and could sleep through noises of pain and sadness, or talk through them, about movies and boyfriends and sex and God, backandforth across the beds.