ERNIE AND ERNESTINA: Searching

Book Two, Chapter 29: Gutless

What’s happening to me?

I was so much a part of Ernie.

I’m still too much a part of him to be able to exist without him. I’ve tried, but the truth of our life together keeps me awake at night. Keeps me from finding any pleasure in life.

I am gutless. I told Ernie lots of times that I had no intestinal fortitude.

And what did he say to this?

“You’ll find it when you need it,” he said.