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“So, what? This is yourI told you sospeech?”
“This is my,we came here and did what we said we were going to do and now it’s time to close this chapterspeech.”
“Well it’s a shitty speech,” I tell her, her gaze slicing to mine seconds before we both start laughing.
“And to think I said you weren’t funny.” She bends over, holding her stomach as laughter rumbles through her.
I don’t think our laughing has anything to do with me being funny or not, but everything to do with our current situation. When you find yourself at the end of your rope sometimes the only thing to do is laugh.
And so we do. We laugh until tears fill our eyes. We laugh until our stomach’s cramp. We laugh until neither of us can physically laugh anymore.
And then we do the only thing we can. We make peace with the situation, knowing we did everything we set out to do. Whether it turned out the way we wanted or not, our job was done.
You can’t control what life throws your way; you can only control how you react to it. Finley said that to me after she found out she was dying. I never understood how she could be so strong, even then, even when facing the end of her life, she still found some way to make it okay.
“What do you say we find an old burger joint and eat ourselves into a coma?” Claire smiles at me.
“I think that’s the best idea you’ve had all day.”
