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‘I don’t want to freak you out,’ she said, looking embarrassed, ‘but my mum wants you to get in touch with her. She says she’s got a message from Oz.’
At first, I wasn’t at all sure I wanted to see her. Could this woman really have a message for me from Oz? A few days later, I called her.
‘How soon can you come?’ she asked. ‘I never normally tell people to come this soon after a bereavement but he keeps saying, “Will you speak to her, where is she? I’m here, I want to talk to her.” He’s been to see two other people in the same church as me. He’s very persistent.’
I cried. And I went to see her the next day. The first thing she did was to offer me a coffee. ‘He’s saying “coffee, white, one.” “Man up.” Oh, and what an awful taste — it’s something like liquorice. What’s that?’
I smiled. ‘His liquorice rollies with menthol tips — he always smoked them. And that’s how he talked, he always said “coffee, white, one,” and “man up” — they were his phrases.’
She continued: ‘He says always for ever, you two. You’re round a table, he’s saying: “Always for ever, my love, even through death. You’ll always be married to me.” Why’s he saying that?’ It was a big thing with Oz. He used to say: ‘There’s only one, always for ever, you and me. If anything happens to me I want you to be happy, live with someone, have kids but don’t marry him. You’re my wife, you’ll always be married to me.’
Extract from Always By My Side via Daily Mail
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