As she walks across the park, a breeze tangles the birthday balloons. She has the scrapbook someone made after her son's funeral. While her husband gives her space on this gray Sunday at Folly Farm Nature Preserve, Laura McCullough pages through memorie...
Her husband ties them down by the gazebo while, from her tote, she sets up a shrine:The scrapbook someone made after his funeral.
After earning his degree, after a year of living on boats, leading scuba dives, cleaning oil spills, skipping through Spain, China, Dubai, Belize — Devon returned to the University of Florida for a master’s degree in business. Laura’s first thought, when she got the call, was to kill herself. “So I could be with him, to hold his hand and help him,” she says.She thought of seat belts and bike helmets, classes in lifeguarding and CPR — everything she’d done to keep him safe. But there was nothing she could have done to save him.
“I had all these things in my head, and nowhere to put them,” Laura says. “I was carrying the grief around and it was so heavy I ached.”Five years after Devon died, Laura was flying to California when she saw an article in the in-flight magazine. A man in Japan had built a phone booth on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean, unwired, unconnected — so he could call his dead cousin.He opened the booth in 2010, for himself and his family. The next year a nearby tsunami killed 15,000 people.
Over two months, the artist collected the materials, built the booth and got city workers to install it. He hung a chalkboard for messages. Someone donated a brown rotary phone with a long, curly cord.
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