I talked to my favorite priest, Fr. Bob, earlier. He'll be back in town Monday. He's been in Chicago for over a year. Tom wasn't Catholic – Bob doesn't care – he's getting in touch with the people that he knows so that Tom may be able to have a decent service if not a fully decent burial. I love that man. I think that if he'd been here for the past year, I wouldn't have lost so much hope. He's always been a simple parish priest but he has a way of making things happen that the AB couldn't even get done.

I'll be fine when he gets here. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to begin making Sunday mass again.

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