When the Dust Settles

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt>Before Brad's death he had placed the mysteries of their lives into a trunk and hid it in the back of his closet.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt>Just hours before he died he insisted that his little sister Ashley leave the hospital and find the trunk in the back of the closet and hide it.</SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; LETTER-SPACING: 0.1pt>Everything in the trunk is for you Ashley and only you he told </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt>her. All the answers that you have been seeking you will find in the trunk. <SPAN style=LETTER-SPACING: 0.1pt>Promise me that you will always remember that the only way for you or anyone to truly understand and see things clearly is.... </SPAN>When the Dust Settles.</SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt>Ashley kept her promise and hid the trunk until after the funeral when <SPAN style=LETTER-SPACING: 0.1pt>everyone had left. Then Ashley with her dog Prince sat down on the floor </SPAN><SPAN style=LETTER-SPACING: 0.15pt>in Brad's apartment. She slowly opened the trunk. And all of their lives' </SPAN>mysteries began to unfold.</SPAN></P>