“Sonny, are you sure, you’re talking about my father? Melvin Porter?”

“Yes Kit, your father, Melvin Porter.”

“What’s wrong with him? What do you mean, he’s dying?”

“I don’t know the details but the person I talked too, said it was urgent. In fact it was the nurse who takes care of him. She said he is very, very sorry and he would like to say that to you and Bette in person. If that’s not possible because he passes away before seing you two, she said she recorded his story. The story he told her about his life and why he did what he did.”

Quietly Kit listened to what Sonny told her. After a few moments of silence Kit spoke.

“Isn’t it peculiar, someone sends me a letter, telling me she met my sister. And now someone calls Jerry and is telling him my father is dying. I don’t know what to do, Sonny. I’m longing to see my sister. I still blame myself for not going back home sooner. If I’d done that……..

I know, I know, things go the way they should go. I regret the words I said to my father when he came to that “meet and greet”. Afterwards I think he came to make amends and I turned him down.”

Kit looked at Sonny and Sonny raised his eyebrow. This was the first time he heard Kit said this about her father.

“What does your feeling tells you to do?”

I have to go to my father and see him and listen to his story. I think that’s what my stepmother, Maxine, should’ve want me to do. But it’s also something I want to do.”

Kit and Sonny talked about what they would do. Sonny would take Junior to his parent, who loved their grandson and he loved to spent time with them. And he would later join his wife. And depending on how Melvin’s condition was, they would go and find Bette. They hugged and kissed.

“Baby, I’m so happy that finally you’re willing to talk to your father. You know how many times I prayed for this moment?”

Kit looked Sonny in his eyes…..