Oh, Faith, it broke my heart even more. Randy is a happy-go-lucky guy. I never thought he would be the type to break down like this—he couldn’t talk. Carlene took the phone and told me what had happened.” Sophie’s words were coming fast. Faith murmured, “I’m so sorry!” and Sophie barely paused. “They’d come in around four this morning and were on their way to bed when they saw the answering machine was beeping. Carlene said they were about to ignore it, but she knew she wouldn’t sleep—she suffers from an ‘overabundance of curiosity,’ her words. The message was from Ruth and had been left at midnight. Her voice was slurred and she told them to have a happy New Year and she’d see them in heaven. They thought she might just be drunk, but when she didn’t answer her phone, Randy decided he’d better go over and check on her. Carlene went with him. The door to the building was wide open, people were still partying, and her apartment door was unlocked. She was on the couch, an empty bottle of vodka and an empty pill container on the floor next to her.
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