Chapter 5

"Yeah," David said. "He's always carried a lot of guilt because of it. After Emily moved overseas, that's when they stopped talking."

"She moved overseas?"

"Yeah, she went to the US for grad school. She was gone for years."

"So why did she come back now?"

"I'm not sure; maybe it had something to do with her health," David said. "I heard she never got married over there, and her health's been pretty bad these past couple of years, so she came back home."

I fell silent. She wasn't in good shape. Because of the surgery back then. Because of…