Deiter wasn’t home to receive the call that would end his life. The doctor was calling with his test results. He was unlocking the door when the fatal ring-ring-ring started and as he stepped into the foyer, it stopped. He silently cursed his bad luck and without looking made his way to the stairs. His three-year-old son had carelessly left a banana peel on the floor, which sent Deiter to his doom, knocking him into a five year coma, where his wife would pull the plug, moments before his brain would have restarted.
Five years after that, Deiter’s wife, Anna, remarried. Three years after that, Deiter’s son, Alex, would die in a car accident, three months later, Anna hanged herself with piano wire and her husband got into a fight with a llama, that left his chest badly bruised.
He would never remarry.
