- Rose: I'm sure it isn't a heart attack. A heart attack's bigger. I've seen a heart attack. Charlie had a heart attack.
- Dorothy: And it wasn't like this?
- Rose: Oh, it was much worse.
- Dorothy: I think the paramedics would get here!
- Rose: Charlie made me dress him when he had his heart attack, before the paramedics got here.
- Dorothy: But he wasn't dressed?
- Rose: We were... making love.
- Dorothy: Oh, Rose, honey, you never told me. He died while you were making love?
- Rose: Well, he didn't die then, he had his heart attack then. And, he told me to dress him.
- Dorothy: And?
- Rose: And I dressed him. And then we had a fight. I grabbed a pair of white pants, and I was putting it on him, and Charlie said it was after Labor Day and he couldn't wear white!
- Dorothy: In the middle of a heart attack?
- Rose: Oh, Charlie was very stubborn. And very dapper.
- Dorothy: And, then what happened?
- Rose: ...And he...told me he loved me...and then it was over. And I put a pair of gray flannel pants on him. And a blue shirt...and a striped tie. And he was all dressed when the paramedics got there.
- Dammit, if this doesn't get me teary every freakin' time!
Saturday, September 1, 2012
How Charlie Died
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This is so sad, poor Rose. I get a little teary every time one of the girls talks about how her husband died. Except Dorothy, because Stan is still alive.
ReplyDeleteThere was also an episode where Rose surprises herself with a birthday cake, and she tells Charlie's ghost that she'll be moving to Miami. That one was sad too. You should cover that one next.
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