Chapter 28: NevermoreHis Jean-Jean is gone. He was buried two weeks ago, in nearly frozen ground among the outcasts. His wife did not attend. Neither did his two grown boys. Bernard stood a little away and watched as the gravediggers lowered Jean-Jean’s casket into the hole. In that pine casket, lay the man he loved more than life itself. His friend. His lover.
He will meet him again, he knows this. And they will have eternity together. God reunites those who love each other. Of this, he is certain.
All Bernard has left of Jean-Jean is this tie he wears around his neck. He had to steal it, just as he stole every moment he shared with his lover in the last twenty years.
Where to go now? Who can ease his sorrow, his grief?
Stepping off the tram, Bernard pauses in the crowded street. He l
