jona and i talk daily while we were in new jork . he would sit on the swing inhis aunt and uncle's backyard and talk with me on his cell phone . i think the regular contact was reassuring to us both .
during a morning conversation the day after i recieved the research file from merideth , he asked if we could cancel our weeked plans . he'd been invited to go the shore with his cousins .
jonas was a hard-core baseball fan . though he was slender like his dad had been , he saw himself as a catcher . it was one of many revelations about him that had begun to pelt me within hours after he began to sleep in our house following his mom's deadth .
what else had i leartned? jonas adored adtronmy and was able to get lost for hours charting the night sky .he was dying to go to a monster -truck show , was curious about drag racing , and liked early eighties music . he was embarrassed about his affection for sponge bob .
his favorite baseball team was the colorado rockies , and to counterbalance the chronic despair that tagged along with that affection , he also had a backup thing for the mets .
i had gone online and scored some pretty good seats for the saturday mets game at shea .
i almost told jonas i had tickets for a mes game . against the dreaded braves , but i didn't tell him . that would have been selfish .
"you're sure ?" i asked , as evenly as i could . prior to beginning the extended visit with his relatives . i had prepared jonas for thepossiblility that he might get some pressure from his aunt or uncle to minimize or cancel the time that he was scheduled to soend with me in the city .
during a morning conversation the day after i recieved the research file from merideth , he asked if we could cancel our weeked plans . he'd been invited to go the shore with his cousins .
jonas was a hard-core baseball fan . though he was slender like his dad had been , he saw himself as a catcher . it was one of many revelations about him that had begun to pelt me within hours after he began to sleep in our house following his mom's deadth .
what else had i leartned? jonas adored adtronmy and was able to get lost for hours charting the night sky .he was dying to go to a monster -truck show , was curious about drag racing , and liked early eighties music . he was embarrassed about his affection for sponge bob .
his favorite baseball team was the colorado rockies , and to counterbalance the chronic despair that tagged along with that affection , he also had a backup thing for the mets .
i had gone online and scored some pretty good seats for the saturday mets game at shea .
i almost told jonas i had tickets for a mes game . against the dreaded braves , but i didn't tell him . that would have been selfish .
"you're sure ?" i asked , as evenly as i could . prior to beginning the extended visit with his relatives . i had prepared jonas for thepossiblility that he might get some pressure from his aunt or uncle to minimize or cancel the time that he was scheduled to soend with me in the city .
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