"When Maggie was awake again, long enough to get up and move around, I moved her and Sasha into my trailer." He'd wanted them close by, and not just because Gregory refused to give them anywhere else to be.

"She sat with me one time," Maggie had often needed to sit. "And she told me it was worth it to get close to someone. To love someone the way she loved Glenn."

He wants Rosita to know this. He wishes Maggie had told it to Rosita instead; it had felt compelling coming from a widow. (In a way, he thinks, Rosita was also a widow.)

He would normally leave it there. He can't in this room and the words come, simple and inevitable and against his will. "But I don't believe her."