3.13 Post mortem

PETER’S MEMOIRS 3: “OUR BERNIE” (PART 13)

This is about Bernie, so I won’t go into the investigation into Angie’s murder or the way it remained an unsolved mystery for years, until Jonah Porter came along and reopened the case. You can read about those things in the books, DESPISE NOT THY MOTHER and CHANGING SCENES OF LIFE.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Despise-not-thy-Mother-widows-ebook/dp/B015FUZJGE

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/despise-not-thy-mother

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Changing-Scenes-Life-story-intrigue-ebook/dp/B0154ESB3E

https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/changing-scenes-of-life

For me the only important thing was that the woman with whom I’d shared my life for more than a quarter of a century was no longer there. And our two children – young adults now, of course – no longer had a mother. Bernie was incredibly kind. She didn’t intrude, but she made it clear that I was welcome at her home any time I chose to turn up.

And she understood when it got too difficult for me going on living in the house where Angie and I had been so happy, which had been spoilt by the memory of that dreadful picture of her lying on the kitchen floor, covered in her own blood. Once Eddie had gone back to Manchester to start his final year at university, I more or less moved into her spare bedroom – although I made a point of moving back to the family home whenever one of the kids decided t come down to check that “poor Dad” was OK.

Of course, at that stage it never crossed my mind that there was any possibility that I might marry again. Nobody, nobody at all could ever replace Angie.

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