Sally

Sally had died in her sleep, she was twenty-nine, and had been
suffering from cancer for some time. I had expected it for weeks and so
had she, I don't think even after the months of pain she had resigned
herself to death. I don't even believe it came as a release, Sally had
lived life like there was no tomorrow, and for her yesterday there
wasn't.

I sat in the apartment and cried. I'd been sick a few times already and
my stomach ached with hunger. My mind though occupied me. A constant
series of memories and pain, lows and lowers, despair giving way to
wretchedness giving way to hollow, hollow hopelessness.

A few days later the pain was still as intense but my body more
accustomed to it, I was making plans, I'd talked it over with Sally's
parents and they agreed, I was going to fly over to Amersia with her to
Lifejewel in Tennessee. I'd first heard about it on the internet and
Sally loved the idea, I remember the tears in her eyes like tiny smooth
cut diamonds as she looked at me and smiled, nodding and burying her
head in my chest. I hugged her in return and fought back my own less
precious gems.

Lifejewel would take the carbon from her body and create in weeks what
nature took millions of years to create, a perfect diamond. It seemed
to both of us that this was right for us and now I was on my way to
Tennessee to initiate the process to cheat time and create my loved
ones precious wishes. The majestic masterpiece of minerals created from
the greatest thing that I had ever had in my life, my own precious
Sally.