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Mona Lewis's late mother's friend, Vera is wheelchair-bound. Because of her own medical tests, Mona has failed to see Vera in months. After getting her terminal diagnosis, Mona goes for a visit. Guessing that something has been wrong with Mona, Vera challenges her assumption that dealing frankly with cancer will make it easier on those around her. They would rather that Mona pretend that there is hope. Vera assures Mona that her mother Clare had known that she was dying and had wanted to face it squarely but had stopped when others preferred to pretend. Attitudes have not changed in thirty years. Vera promises to support Mona. Vera says that Clare had wanted her to marry her husband when she is gone; Vera laughs that she may now marry Mona's.