And my pension would not run to it, so I took a job as a nurse at the hospital.
And then one day I went into a patient’s room to see to him.
And I opened that chart and saw the name Alun. And I looked at him and I knew him.
He was thin and he was terribly weak and it was him. And he had cancer and it had gone a long way.
And he looked at me and he smiled straight away and said hello.
As though something had decided to put the two of us in a room one more time.
And we talked every day. And you know the feeling when somebody is simply the person — that is what it was like.
And then one day he said, quietly:
“Love, I haven’t got long, so it’s time I told you something. I have loved you my whole life. I never married anybody, because the only person I ever wanted to marry was you. Will you marry me? It’s the last thing I’ll ask for.”
