Uncle Donnie and Shel
The pain hit Don while he was taking a shower. His wife had gone to the hospital with a severe case of pneumonia the night before. Her COPD always made each round worse than the previous one. Her best friend showed up and insisted Don go home, clean up and get some rest. She’d happily to stay with Maggie for a few hours. The only other person in Don’s house was Shelby. She was a 27yr old granddaughter of some dear friends, who had been killed in an auto accident. Shelby had taken the loss of ‘Papa’ and ‘Nanny’ harder than her sisters… her dad, too, for that matter. Shelby’s mother had divorced her, pitiful, self from the whole family when Shelby was just ten. Nobody knew where she lived, nor did they care. Shelby’s …