As the events between Bette, Tina, and Alex were transpiring Dana Fairbanks was doing the best acting job of her life. She was pouring her heart out to Tonya. Dana told her fianc the story of how she had started with tennis to please her parents and had never truly enjoyed it. To Tonya, Dana explained that she was happy with the idea of being poor and unknown. Alethia and the Church of the Unbroken String had finally given her the courage to face her parents with the truth that tennis had only been for them. Further, Dana told Tonya that she was sure of Tonyas love and support in her decision to be poor, not famous, working a simple job and having a simple life. Had any of her friends been present to observe, they would have been shocked at how well Dana could lie.

After returning home, Bette and Tina sat on the couch together and opened the envelope that they had been given by Alex. Inside were a compact disc and a letter. Bette held the letter as they read together:

Dear Bette E. and T-bird
Sometimes you find a song that is able to articulate feelings better than you could ever do. It is as if the songwriter knew your emotions and put them to paper in a way that describes how you feel though you, yourself, had never been able to do so.
One thing that I never told you, Bette E. was that a couple of years before she died, Catherine and I went through a rough period. I was preparing to turn 30 and was having a bit of a midlife crisis. To me, age 30 meant that it was time to grow up and be an adult and I wasnt sure I was ready. After all, where had my youth gone?
The separation between Catherine and myself was temporary. I realized that my youth was not as valuable as I had thought, given that it had not been spent with Catherine.
This song described how I felt and it became our song. Now, I am giving it to you and T-bird. Listen to it periodically and remember that your relationship, the family you are building is the most important thing in each of your lives.
Life is painfully short. I know that you have issues, all couples do. What is most vital is that you deal with your issues and never lose sight of the fact that you love each other. Maximize the time you have together, because in the end, that is the only thing that matters.
With my love,
Alex

Bette got up from the couch and put the disc into the CD player. From the speakers came the voice of Bonnie Raitt, whom Bette knew to be one of Alexs favorites.
Bette and Tina sat on the couch, holding hands as they listened to the words that Alex had wanted them to hear:
Nobody else could make me happy
No one could hurt me like you do
You were the only one that mattered

Then you were gone…love had moved on
Left me alone thinking of…

You…there was never any other
You…and I were created to be true

Isnt it love that keeps us breathing
Isnt it love were sent here for
Wasnt that love that we were feeling
(that was something baby)

Deep in our soul…deeper than we know
Keeping me holding out for

You…there was never any question
Youll be forever on my mind

You and I, we were meant to be together
True hearts in a world where love is dyin

And I might as well have been dyin when
We were apart
When you came back I felt the beating of my heart

You…there was never any question
Youll be forever on my mind
You and I, we were meant to be together
You…and only you

It was you…only you
You…always you

The music finished, Bette stood up to put the song on repeat. She then held out her hand to Tina. They stood in the middle of their living room dancing to a song that did, in fact, say exactly what Bette felt.

As she had listened to that song so many times, Alexs favorite line was, I might as well have been dyin when we were apart / When you came back I felt the beating of my heart. Without Catherine, Alex thought she would never again feel the beating of her heart.