The Snowfly (2013)
“Ingrid and I had settled in and, by the time the first robins showed, we were both ready to fish. The day after I first told Ingrid I loved her, I called Fred Ciz, gave him my new address, and told him I’d be up to visit sometime that summer.
I took Ingrid to meet my sister, Lilly, and after that they were on the phone at least once a week. Lilly and her children came down to visit at Easter. Ingrid’s big house on the upper Dog River was overrun with little bodies in sleeping bags. We cooked hamburgers over charcoal and I was at peace.
“There’s more to a relationship than this,” Lilly said, softly scolding.
“I’m discovering life.”
Lilly said, “You look happy.” I could tell she meant it.
A week after Easter Fred called.
“Amp’s dead,” he said. The deputy, who had been in Vietnam, had gone down with a heart attack trying to referee a domestic dispute and died on the spot.
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