The Mind Creative OCTOBER 2013 | Page 35

The Mind Creative OCT 2013 I felt sorry for myself because I had to leave an unfinished conversation. I wanted to say a lot more to the young man. I wanted to tell him that he won’t see me around the town; that he would only see me at night on the little green bench at the station. I wanted to confide in him that his uncle Fred and the stationmaster knew me very well; that they knew me not because I am an old inhabitant of the town. They knew me because I had died, with my family, in that fatal train crash in 1962. 35