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Later, people would ask her what it was like.
“Death?” Nora would ask casually, as if she were a frequent traveler to
this other realm with a return ticket. “Nothing like you could ever imagine.”
Which she knew wasn’t terribly illuminating, but it was the best she could
do. It was beyond her ability to account for her near-death experience. How
could she adequately describe finding herself wedged into the frayed seam
between life and death, neither alive nor dead, like some philosophical
riddle on a college entrance exam?
Her response was inevitably followed by a pause in which the listener
would politely wait for her to imagine for them. But that was all she had the
words for. “You kind of had to be there,” she’d say.
She hated when people said that.
She didn’t want to be coy, but that extraordinary event was too precious,
and too complicated, to try to put into words. It separated her new,
improved life from the life she’d had in the Before, and it was deeply
personal. Dying, then coming back to life, had altered her at the cellular
level. She felt reimagined and reinvigorated, capable of things she’d never
even contemplated, like rock climbing and trigonometry. Not that she
intended to tackle either of those things—at least she didn’t think so; it was
simply knowing that she could. How hard could anything be after surviving
death? Her optimism was as high as if she’d been shot through with vats of
B12 and Pacific sunsets.
She had no idea how she’d shown up at death’s door or how she’d died.
And yet, the facts were irrefutable—she’d been clinically dead, having
spent several minutes underwater.
The November family was not particularly religious except when it
served a purpose . . . like when an important client invited them to Easter
church services and her father made them all attend. Still, Nora was familiar
with the traditional symbols and had expected pearly gates and cherubs with
lutes flitting around her. At the very least, the angel Gabriel checking in
newcomers. Or Lucifer ushering the ones who’d found themselves at the
wrong entrance into the fiery pits of hell. But when she died, there was
nothing to suggest that she’d entered another realm.
Early in her legal career, she’d represented a family whose car had been
hit by a casket. A truck was carrying several of the company’s best sellers
when the chain holding them on the back of a flatbed broke. The caskets
bounced off and onto the highway, piling up like a giant version of the
game Jenga.
In preparation for that case, Nora had seen so many caskets
that it was inevitable she would think about being stuck in one and planted
six feet deep in the ground for all eternity. Not unreasonably, given the
dimensions of your average casket, she’d imagined cold and lonely, dark
and cramped.
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