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see. Molly, how will you
get there, assuming the hospital releases you
tomorrow?” 
    “ Mom and dad will take me
and Bobby. The doctor said there isn’t anything he can do about the
cracked ribs; they have to heal on their own.” 
    “ Have you talked to her
friend Bobby yet, Mason?” 
    “ No, not yet. I was going to
head down there now. They moved him out of I.C.U. earlier
today.” 
    “ Molly, was he staying with
you at the hotel?” 
    “ Yes, Bobby is my only
friend,” she says sadly. 
    “ Sam asked me to clear out
your room after the hotel called him. I put everything in your car
and had my dad take your car to your parents’ house. Bobby has some
personal items I think he may want in the car.” I look from Molly
to Mason. “Mason, would you tell him we can get those items to him
whenever he wants them?” 
    “ Sure, no
problem.” 
    “ There was also a stuffed
animal in one of the drawers. Did that belong to you or
him?” 
    Molly asks, “Stuffed animal? It must be his.
It doesn’t belong to me.” 
    “ The hotel also refunded you
some money for the unused nights. I put the check in your glove
compartment in the car.” 
    “ Thank
you.” 
    A knock sounds at the door before it slowly
opens. We all turn to look and in the doorway stands a petite
dark-haired woman; with her is a man in a wheelchair. He smiles at
Molly and the woman pushes him further into the room. 
    “ Bobby,” Molly says, crying.
“I was so worried about you.”
    I watch as the man stands up from the
wheelchair. “Doll, I was afraid I would never see you again,” he
says, as he walks over to hug her. He is a tall but thin
man. 
    “ You can’t get rid of me
that easily.” Molly hugs him back and he sits back down in the
wheelchair.
    He looks around the room and says, “I’m
sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt. I just had to see for myself
that Molly was all right. Hi, I’m Bobby Grether and this is my
wife, Leah.” 
    Molly introduces everyone and Mason asks,
“Bobby Grether? You’re the legendary pro boxer Bobby
Grether?” 
    “ Not anymore, I’m not. But,
yes, that was me.” 
    I watch as his wife pats him on his
shoulder.
    “ Bobby, I didn’t know you
were married,” Molly says.
    Bobby sadly explains about the car accident
that killed his only daughter and about his leaving his wife out of
shame and turning to drugs. He and his wife both cry, and the rest
of us are in shock. “My daughter is who I visited at the cemetery
that day,” he says as he looks at Molly. She only nods. 
    Mason explains to Bobby and his wife about
the treatment center he found and about the open beds they have
available. He tells them when Bobby is discharged from the
hospital, he can go there for his treatment, if he wants to.
    “ That’s very nice of you,
but I would like to stay close to home. I don’t want to leave Leah,
since I just got her back.” Bobby looks back at Leah and she smiles
as a tear falls from her cheek. “I left my wife because I believed
she was in an irreversible coma, and I was
also afraid if she woke up, she would blame me for Jamie’s death. I
was sadly mistaken on both parts. But, Molly, I would go with you
to the rehab center if I didn’t have Leah.” 
    “ If you need help getting
into a program here, please let us know,” Mason says.
    “ I will and thank you.” He
looks over at Molly and smiles.
    “ Take some Motrin to help
with your symptoms,” I say.
    “ Thank you, I will.” He
looks away from me and looks at Molly. “I’m going to miss you,
Doll.” 
    “ Bobby, this isn’t the end;
this is only the beginning of the next part of our
lives.” 
    I look over at Bobby and Leah and say, “I
cleared the things out of the hotel. I have some things that belong
to you that I am sure you want.” 
    “ What kind of things?” Leah
asks. 
    “ Clothes mostly, and a
stuffed animal,” I say.
    “ I still have Jack,” Bobby
says, looking back at Leah, who instantly cries. 
    “