Last wishes denied

 Father and daughter: At the end of

their lives, both had the same request

By David Baker
August 29, 2024

   Last week Alison Carey was close to death. 

   Back in 2002, Alfred Roy Carey, father of Alison and Mariah, also was close to death. He, like Alison was not in a hospital but in a private home, on medications to keep him comfortable. And as Alison did 22 years later, he had a last request.  

    In the chapter in her memoir titled Father and the Sunset, Mariah wrote: 

   “His dying wish was that my ex-sister Alison and I would speak again.”

   Alison had come to her father’s bedside, and Mariah goes on to write that  “…for a limited time, we were able to be in the same room.” But there’s no indication in the book that the two spoke, then or since.

   Twenty two years later, Alison was the one close to death, with the same longing. But it was not to be. Unwilling to move past a destruction of trust she claims happened 43 years ago, Mariah has now denied forever the last wish of both her father and her sister.

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