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Bringing Up Memories

Chapter 2- Who is Maggie?

Jesse drove over to the bank where he held a safety deposit box. Although they were about to close, Jesse talked them into letting him in. His friends waited in a parking lot across the street, and saw him come out with a key. They followed him to a place called "Big Joe's Storage Units, Inc."

Jesse drove down row B to the fifth shed and stopped his car. He opened the door, and went to a cardboard box. As he pulled it off of a shelf, the sky opened up and it began to pour. Jesse took a small dress out of the box and held it to his chest. He looked around unit and found a box labeled "Maggie's Letters." In this box Jesse found her diary. He loaded several boxes into the trunk and back seat of his car.

"Who is she?" Susan asked, startling Jesse. As he stood there with the rain streaming down his face, he started sobbing. He was crying too hard to speak so Susan helped him get in the car, and she drove him back to the beach house.

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Jesse sat on the couch in Mark's living room wearing an old sweat suit of Steve's, and wrapped in a blanket. Susan was sitting next to him, trying to comfort him. His sobs had died down, but tears were still streaming down his face.

At his request, Steve and Amanda carried in the boxes that Jesse had put in his car, while Mark made fresh coffee to warm him up. After he calmed down and his teeth had stopped chattering, Jesse fished through a box marked "Photo Albums," and pulled out a book covered with dark blue material. Gold stars were stenciled around the border, and the words "Maggie: 1986-1990" were inscribed across the front. Jesse opened the book and everyone leaned in to see. The first page held an enlarged photograph of Jesse with five other students. It must have been from the beginning of his medical schooling, because each smiling person had a stethoscope over their shoulders, and they wore lab coats with the words "Future Doctor" embroidered above the breast pocket. Each one of the people had signed their names on the photograph: Nick, Annie, Ian, Paige, Jesse, and Maggie. She was a smiling woman with wavy red hair and green eyes.

"Maggie was my wife..."