Deborah

For all the words she'd prepared, these words, she said, came from the guts.

To get through her long life, Deborah learned to box up the pain and store it neatly away.

But maybe, if you live long enough, everything, even those buried things, rise to the surface again, searching for light.

We all load into the van and settle back in for the journey back to the Bronx.

How are you feeling?

I thought it would be painful.

And it wasn't painful.

I got a refill of energy.

It was a little bit of stealing from his strength.

And that really came from being with Jerry.

A young man, at a time when he needed love most, conjured a spectral companion to journey by his side.

Now, almost a century later, an old woman does the same.

It's the sort of ironic twist that could have flowed from Jerry's pen.

Or a banana?

What about a banana?

Back in the van, Joe reminds Debra that it's his daughter, Debra's granddaughter's, 31st birthday.

When she gets home, Debra will return some phone calls, maybe take a nap.

All the little things that make up a life.

All the little things that make up the here and now.

This episode of Heavyweight was produced by Phoebe Flanagan and me, Jonathan Goldstein.