SHE NEVER GOT HER MINT CHIP ICE-CREAM

 Jeannette is missed so much.  I remember August of 2009 at around this time of the morning.  She was sitting on her hospital bed looking out the window at the traffic and the stores across the street.  I asked her what was she thinking about.  She said she craved some baskin robbins ice-cream. "Mint Chip", she said.  I told her I would go across the street at noon and get her some.  She smiled.  At noon I went and got her a big scoop of  mint chip ice-cream but when I went into her room she was fast asleep.  I didn't know what to do with the ice-cream that was melting away in my hand.  So, I ate it.  She woke up 20 minutes later and asked me about the ice-cream.  I said to her, "Mija, I will run over right now, o.k."  She smiled and so there I went, running across the street again and dashing back to her room.  This time she was wide awake.  As I was about to give it to her, the nurse came in and said she was NPO all day due to an exam later.  She never got to eat her ice-cream.  Now, when I think of her sometimes I go to Baskin Robbins and order a mint chip ice-cream, sit in my car and listen to Celine Dion songs.  Her favorites.