Keith Morrison

when their phone broke to silence, followed by a knock at the door.

and the rotating amber light of an emergency vehicle raking their dark living room wall.

There's been an accident, and I go, oh, my gosh.

I go, was Michelle in a wreck?

And they go, well, not exactly.

There's been a... She's been shot.

And, of course, chills went down my spine.

I go, well, then she's alive.

And he goes, well, no.

And that just really... When I heard those words, it just really... Just...

Took all the feeling out of me, basically.

I'm not trying to poke you with sharp sticks or anything, but is there any way to understand, for people to understand what that feeling is like when you know they're on the way?

Nothing worse.

I sort of lost all the feeling in my body when they told me.

You kind of want to spin back the clock, but can't, is that?

Yeah.

It's your knees buckled, that one.

Yeah, yeah.

As a matter of fact, I think I had to sit back.

We were near the stairway, and I just got to lean back and had to sit down on the steps and get my breath.