. Now I knew what was familiar about it. Gay sex last year . The men should get a good night’s sleep before we hit the German homeland. This isn’t the time for that.”“No, I suppose not. I’d found those already. It is outfitted as a separate living space. I have been worried about that. I’m sorry to hear that. Powell was a family friend. At least he hadn’t shot himself in the house. It was a surprise to learn from Claude that Edmund had visited Celestine and him in Colmar three times during the fifties and early sixties. I told my mother they were nothing important and that I’d burned them. By then he was into a routine of nearly 27/7 care by a dedicated nurse, Celestine Langhorne, who looked after his every need, including sponging him off and putting him on a bedpan.The two became very close, with Celestine able to understand what all of the needs of a twenty-five-year-old American soldier would be. So, chances were good, I thought, that I’d remain in Colmar.
