It is 2005, and I am still on the same page, I am still wondering exactly what happened.“Moribund on the sofa”—what did that mean? Half dead, already dead, well on the way to being dead? Was she in a coma? Did she know someone had come for her? Did she hope to be saved? How does someone live to be sixty and end up so alone? I go through the few papers I have—her death certificate says she died at 3 A.M. in the emergency room of the hospital. Who called the ambulance? How long was she in the emergency room? She must have been a little bit alive when she got there, otherwise the DOA box would have been checked. I think of calling Atlantic City 911 and asking for a transcription. And why am I remembering someone saying something about her being discovered by a Chinese deliveryman?Seven years after the fact and it is as fresh as when it happened. It seems that this is the nature of trauma—it doesn’t change, soften, go dim, mutate into something less sharp, less dangerous.Even now I want to call Ellen and ask what it was all about.
What do You think about The Mistress's Daughter (2007)?
