Author’s note: The Story “Dead Man’s Path” ended in a women dying in childbirth and the headmaster awaking to his beautiful garden destroyed. In this piece I plan to add more to the ending of the story.
“What has happened?” Mr. Opi blared at the priest.
“I haven’t a clue.” The teacher said sheepishly.
Mr. Opi was infuriated as he rushed into the village. He started asking different people if they knew of what happened to his gardens but he kept getting one response, “It’s the dead man’s path, we can’t control what goes on there.” Now he was even angrier, racing back to the school. When he got there he said “I want that path shutdown and I want it shutdown now.”
He tried to shut it down but that plan had failed. Three years later still as the headmaster he tried to shut it down again. The villagers would not allow it. One day there was an old and frail lady walking on the path, he walked up to her in a hurry. Once he got there in a very sincere voice he said, “Now ma’m out of the things you could be doing with your time why do you choose to walk upon a path like such?”
She replied to him, “This may be your school but my husband died eighteen years ago and I have visited this path every day since then. I have been able to connect with him even when he is not here and so I would not want you just embark on all the things this path has done for me and the village.
His heart had just dropped; he had finally realized what he had been so oblivious to in the past. He hadn’t questioned the path or anything else in the school from that day forward. That moment had changed his life.
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