Author:  Alice Sebold
Viewed: 69 - Published at: 5 years ago

Lindsey and I would lie down on the floor underneath it. I would pretend to be the knight that was pictured, and Holiday was the faithful dog curled up at his feet. Lindsey would be the wife he'd left behind. It always dissolved into giggles no matter how solemn the start. Lindsey would tell the dead knight that a wife had to move on, that she couldn't be trapped for the rest of her life by a man who was frozen in time. ....
"You're dead, knight," she would say. "Time to move on.

( Alice Sebold )
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