Yesterday at school there was a memorial service for Mrs. Nance. The whole school was almost in tears. I was one of the students who was not.
Christi bought a new Broadway Musical Soundtrack and she recorded a copy for me. It’s called Miss Saigon.
I thought Les Miserables was sad, and I thought Phantom of the Opera was sad, but Miss Saigon tops them both.
I’ve listened to it almost six times and I’ve gotten chocked up each time. I balled like a baby the first three times.
I will cry when someone dies in a movie or a play, but I have never cried over a person who has died in real life. Jonathan said it is because in real life we don’t accept it.
At the wake, or the viewing, whatever you call it, Mrs. Nance didn’t look like Mrs. Nance. She just wasn’t there. She wasn’t moving. She wasn’t breathing. It looked like someone else’s body.
Afterwards, we went to the lock-in for the youth group. Kevin came back from college for it and to go to a cross country meet he and Jonathan were going to early Saturday morning.
Ryan and Christi weren’t at the lock-in, but mostly everyone else was. We watched videos and talked and ate.
Amy and Cheryl told me that Christi wasn’t a part of the church or the youth group anymore. I’m not sure what that is about. I haven’t talked to Christi yet. I have no idea what happened.
Ryan simply had to babysit.
I slept almost two hours this morning while some people watched Return to Snowy River. I had an eye appointment at 11:30 a.m. at Wal-Mart. I went to that and then Marcus and I went to a place called Britt’s in Sanford and boy does that place have one fine waitress.
We ate there because I talked to Hank and Patti earlier and they said they were going to take Christi out to lunch there between her rehearsals for The Sound of Music. They showed up, but without Christi. She didn’t have enough time so they grabbed her a burger instead.
I wanted to talk to her, but I couldn’t.
We came home after that and Henry felt the need to lecture us again. This time is was on “conversing.” Yeah, I don’t know either.
At the lock-in there were a lot of junior-high kids there. Only about half of the original Endtime Warriors were there. Cheryl said that everyone is leaving and new kids are coming in. Cheryl is a freshman; she’ll be here for a while.
But she was right. I received my acceptance letter from Lees-McRae today. I will be there in less than ten months.
And in 20 days I will see Les Miserables.
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