Sting Quotes

I Drive Back Into Town With The Two Crinkly Notes In My Pocket And Wonder If I Could Support A Family This Way, Doomed To Play Dinner Dances Until I Too Have One Foot In The Grave. I Shudder At The Possibility, And Think About Poor Meg In Her Sickbed. What Am I Going To Do? On The Way Back I Pass A Big Roundabout At The End Of The Coast Road. It Is March, And The Roundabout Is Covered In Daffodils. I Circle It Twice, An Idea Forming In My Head. I Park In A Nearby Street. It Is Early Morning And There Is No One Around. I Check For Police Cars And Head Across The Road To The Roundabout. Half An Hour Later I Let Myself Into Megan's Flat And Slowly Open Her Bedroom Door. My Arms Are Full Of Daffodils, Maybe A Hundred All Told, Their Drooping Yellow Trumpets Lighting Up The Entire Room. Meg Starts To Cry, And So Do I. The Next Morning Our Prayers Are Answered, But Our Relief Is Mixed With A Subtle, Unspoken Regret.

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