Before she died, she asked him not to alert Forsythia Brown about her condition, since Gem Atkinson was in the midst of the election. He promised her.
The moment she passed away, the New Year's bells rang out clearly, which he thought sounded like the divine chant from heaven, coming to take the most wonderful woman on earth to paradise.
Her departure was not painful at all, in her words, because she had him by her side.
He held her cold hand and said, "Nora, I will be with you for a lifetime."
After Nora's death, his heart turned to ashes, and he contemplated becoming a monk. Alas, the abbot at the monastery declined his request, citing that his worldly ties had not yet ended. He kept pestering the abbot until, with no other recourse, the abbot allowed him to stay and practice at the monastery as a lay disciple and even gave him a quiet meditation abode to worship the eternal lamp for Nora.
Until today, when Gem Atkinson gave him a call.
