They Sold His Medals and Watered Down His Medicine to Pay for a Cruise. They Never Knew About the Trust
That is the whole of the mission, in the end.
It is the answer Walt spent three million dollars and his last clear afternoon making sure I understood — and I understood it, and I have spent every day since making sure that other people, strangers he never met, get the answer to that question too.
The answer is yes.
Someone will come.
Someone will stay.
I wear his ring on a chain now.
Some mornings I hold it and think about that last dark hour in his room, and the terrible bowl of cinnamon apples, and the word I got to say to him in time at last.
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