SEPTEMBER 8, 2040 Brian Kinney had just sat down to eat lunch after the party planner and his crew had left the house. It had taken the crew several hours but they'd decorated and set up for two separate parties. Today was the 40th birthday of his son, Gus, and the 40th anniversary of the night his lover, Justin Taylor, had entered his life. It was also the 27th anniversary of another important day in his life. The dining room was set up for Gus’ birthday party while the living room was set up for the surprise party. Of course instead of the surprise being for the guest of honor it was for the guests, only Brian and Justin knew about this party. Brian knew that by the time everyone left for home, after the parties, most would be sick of cake. There was a 4-tier birthday cake in the dining room and a double size chocolate chocolate chip cake in the living room, both carefully wrapped to keep them fresh. While the birthday cake was a standard cherry chip cake from a mix the surprise cake had been made from Brian’s mother’s recipe. Justin had kept the recipe even though Joan had been dead for almost 27 years and he'd never actually made the cake since her death. At 69 Brian was semi-retired from his position at the Kinney-Taylor ad agency while Gus was the President and Justin the head of the art department of the family business. Justin and Gus were at work though both had promised to come home early to finalize the preparations for the party. Though everyone attending would be surprised to find out that they were helping Brian and his family celebrate more than just Gus’ 40th birthday as the invitations had stated. All of their friends and family would be there, at least those that still lived in the Pittsburgh area. Michael Novotny, Brian’s best friend since forever, now lived in Miami so he wouldn’t be at the party. He had moved to Florida to be with his latest lover, who had died 6 months after they moved to Miami, Michael had no ties to his new home but inertia had kept him from moving back to Pittsburgh. Michael over the years had lost several lovers to the arms of death. In June of 2004, Ben Bruckner, the love of his life, after Brian anyway, had been killed in a train derailment while he was going to Philadelphia for an academic conference. After Ben Michael never fully committed his heart to another man even when he was living with someone. Melanie and Lindsay, Gus’s mothers would be at the party, and probably would be the most surprised of all the guests when Brian made his surprise announcement to explain the second party set up in the living room. Emmett Hunnicutt and Ted Schmidt and whomever they were currently seeing would be attending the party too and would bry surprised at Brian‘s announcement as well. Emmett would probably hide his surprise better than any of the other guests though. Ted and Emmett had been part of Brian’s circle for more years than he really wanted to remember but he really didn’t remember how they had gotten to know each other in the first place. After more than 40 years that really didn’t matter much. Justin’s sister Molly and her family would be there also. Molly had recently become a grandmother and couldn’t wait to show off her new grandson, Justin Brian Weatherly, to the family group. Justin on the other hand wasn’t thrilled about having to admit to being a great Uncle even if he had been a grandfather for 14 years. Justin’s mother, Jennifer, was in poor health but would come to the party with Molly if at all possible. Justin’s best friend Daphne was out of the country again but had sent a vid to be played during the party. Over the years Daphne had become a world-renowned photojournalist and actually spent very little time in Pittsburgh but still considered the Pitts to be her home base. Justin was still her best friend in the world and they communicated one way or the other pretty much every day. Brian’s personal assistant, for over 40 years, had finally retired and moved to Arizona to be with her grandchildren. It had surprised Brian when he found out that she had children let alone grandchildren. He was even more surprised when she'd called and declined his offer to pay for her to return to Pittsburgh for the party but had congratulated him for lasting 27 years. She'd flabbergasted him when she told him that she'd known almost from day one. Brian had finally realized that Cynthia really did know him better than he knew himself. Brian’s grandson, Taylor, would be at the party; at least until he figured out an excuse for leaving, 14 year olds weren’t that thrilled to be partying with old fogies. Though Taylor might very well stay longer once he heard about the surprise announcement about the 2nd party. Gus and Taylor had moved in with Brian and Justin after the death of Gus’s wife, Katherine, from cancer, 4 years earlier. Gus hadn’t handled the death of Katherine very well and it'd been up to Taylor to help his Daddy get his life back in order. Brian and Justin had always been amazed at how mature Gus had lived his life when he was a boy but they'd been even more amazed at how well Taylor had done during the time his mother had been sick and dealing with her death. All in all Brian and Justin had been very happy with their son and grandson. They were also looking forward to the great grandchildren to come. Taylor would turn 5 shades of red if he knew that his Granddaddy and Papa had discussed the idea of great grandchildren since that would imply that they were discussing his future sex life. While he was eating Brian was perusing the notes for the speech that he was planning on giving to his friends and family to explain the surprise party. The doorbell rang and Brian got up to answer it, he still was an athletic man but he didn’t move as quickly as he did when he was younger. When he got to the door he was surprised that there were a uniformed policeman and another older man. “Mr. Kinney, I’m Detective Coons and I’m afraid I have bad news. There was an armed robbery at the coffee house in the lobby of your company’s building several hours ago.” “So what does that have to do with me?” “I’m sorry Mr. Kinney but there were some deaths in the incident, your son, Gus Peterson-Marcus, was killed at the coffee house. Mr. Justin Taylor died en route to the hospital.” Brian staggered back into the entryway of his house. “Are you OK Mr. Kinney” “What the fuck do you think? Thank you for bringing me this horrible news, my son and partner are dead and you ask me if I‘m OK. What do you think? Now just leave me the fuck alone.” Brian just stumbled back to the dining room table where he sat down next to the cake box and just lapsed into a stunned silence. As he sat there for what seemed forever he sank further and further into a funk. He'd no idea that tears were streaming down his face or that he'd soiled his clothing. He only knew the pain of losing his son and his lover. Not only had he lost them he lost them on the anniversary of the day they'd entered his life. They'd come to him at almost the same time 40 years earlier and now they'd left him at almost the same time as well. Fate had slapped him upside of the head again. Fate had a habit of messing up his life. *** When Taylor got home, after football practice, he was surprised to find that the front door wasn’t completely closed but he was horrified to find his Granddaddy sitting at the dining room table staring into space. “Granddaddy what’s the matter? Why're you just staring into space? Why won’t you answer me? Are you sick? Granddaddy talk to me.” Taylor then tried to call his Daddy but the call wouldn’t go through, the same happened when he tried his Papa’s number. By this time the boy was in a panic so he called his Grandma Lindsay. “Grandma something's wrong with Granddaddy, he's just sitting at the table staring into space and crying. I’ve never seen him cry. Daddy and Papa don’t answer their phones. I don’t know what to do.” “Calm down Tay, Mel and I'll be over there as soon as we can.” “Something terrible had to happen, the house is all set up for the party but Granddaddy won’t answer any of my questions. I think that he's wet himself. Grandma I’m scared.” “Tay just stay there with Brian we'll be there soon.” *** “Melanie something's wrong with Brian we have to get over there now. Taylor says he's just sitting at the table staring into space. It could be a stroke.” “Lindsay there was an announcement about a shooting at the Kinney-Taylor building this morning. They're just about to give further announcements about the incident.” "We have learned that five people have died from the shooting in the lobby of the Kinney-Taylor building. Jay Jewett, Henrietta Anderson, Gus Peterson-Marcus, Justin Taylor, and Helen Street.” “Oh no, Oh God. No wonder Brian's staring into space, it's happened to him again. The police must've notified him. We have to get over there for Tay, Lindsay. Lindsay come on we have to get to Brian’s house now. Taylor needs us, we can grieve for Gus later.” “Mel, it isn’t that easy, I’ve lost my son, I’ve lost my baby.” “I know Linds, I know but we have to stay strong for Taylor’s sake. He's lost his Daddy and he's only 14 it's going to hit him terribly hard especially with Justin gone as well and Brian going off into one of his funks.” “All right Mel I’ll stay together as long as necessary for Taylor but once we get Brian back to normal then I’m having a breakdown.” “I’ll be right beside you babe.” “Mel it hurts so much, he was such a good son and he had so much to live for.” “I know but it wasn’t meant to be. Get the address book we'll have to call people from Brian’s house and cancel the party.” *** The women soon arrived at the Kinney household but they'd told each other that they had to stay calm for their grandson’s sake since he was about to find out about the loss of his Daddy and Papa. They found the boy sitting next to Brian. “Granddaddy wake up, what's the matter, please come back to me.” The boy kept repeating over and over while rubbing Brian’s back. But Brian wasn’t hearing anything over the pain in his heart and soul. “Taylor honey, come here.” “Yes Grandma, what’s the matter with Granddaddy?” “Honey he's had a terrible shock, sit down beside me.” “Grandma, you're scaring me, what happened, where're Daddy and Papa, they should've been home by now?” “Taylor you're going to have to be strong. Your Daddy and Papa were killed earlier today during a robbery attempt at the Kinney-Taylor building” “What?” “We heard it on the vid news, your Granddaddy must have found out earlier and he's in shock over losing his son and Justin at the same time.” “What can we do? What'll I do?” “Don’t worry Taylor we'll take care of you and we'll get Brian back to normal.” “You promise.” “Yes don’t worry honey you aren’t going to lose your Granddaddy too. Now go to Brian’s room and get some clean clothes for him.” As soon as the boy was out of earshot Melanie asked “Was that wise to promise him we'll get Brian back, you know how close he was to fading away when he was only worried about Justin dying, this time Justin is dead and his ‘Sonnyboy’ too.” “What else could I do Mel? We have to think of Taylor now. We have to cancel the party, let everyone know what has happened, if they haven’t heard already.” “After we get Brian cleaned up and in bed I’ll get the guest list from Taylor and start calling.” “Mel what's in the living room?” “What?” “Look through the door it's set up for a party too.” “Lindsay it's set up for an anniversary party.” “Who has an anniversary that Brian and Justin would celebrate?” “Justin and Brian met on this date, maybe it's for that.” “No it's for a 27th anniversary.” “I don’t know then. We can look more closely after we get Brian situated. Maybe Taylor knows.” Taylor brought some sweat clothes for his Granddaddy since he figured they would be easier to get on him. “Taylor the easiest way to clean him up will be for you to get in the shower with him, it's a good thing that you're almost as tall as he is; when did you get so big?” Lindsay asked. The three of them were able to get Brian on his feet and moving to the master bathroom, it helped that he kept himself rigidly upright. Once inside the bathroom they got Brian’s clothes off. Taylor got Brian into the shower stall then once his Grandmas left the room stripped himself and got into the shower where Brian was standing perfectly still. Taylor turned the water on and started washing his Granddaddy. “Sunshine it's been a long time since we shared a shower.” Brian murmured. “Granddaddy it’s me, Taylor, not Papa.” But Brian didn’t hear the boy he just went back into his state of funk. Once Taylor had Brian clean he got him out of the shower and dressed, put on his own clothes and called his Grandmas back into the bathroom. They managed to get Brian into his bed where he just lay like a log staring at the ceiling, lost in his feelings of loss. “Sunshine what am I going to do without you. Sonnyboy you promised you wouldn‘t leave me to live without you in my life.” “Taylor we need a guest list so that we can start calling people so they don’t come for the party.” Melanie told her grandson. “OK Grandma I know where it is, but what're we going to do? Granddaddy can’t leave me too.” “Don’t worry Taylor we'll get him back it'll just take some time. He just has to get over his grief from losing Justin and Gus.” On his way to his grandmothers with the guest list Taylor picked up the piece of paper he saw on the dining room table and put it under the guest list. He gave both sheets to his grandma Mel. Melanie started calling everyone on the list and telling him or her not to come to the house because of the tragedy. She knew that Brian would never forgive her if she let anyone see him like he was. Of course that was assuming that he came back to this world and knew that people had seen him in his state of funk. “Hello Molly. This's Melanie Marcus I’m just calling to see how your family is dealing with this terrible disaster.” “We're dealing but it's hard, of all of the days for it to happen this would be the worst. How's Brian doing?” “He's out of this world, it's just like when Justin was bashed, and he's just staring into space with tears flowing down his face. We're trying to get him back to reality for Taylor’s sake. Taylor has already lost his Daddy and Papa he can’t lose his Granddaddy too. How's your mother?” “Well she hasn’t said much since the police came around to tell us what had happened but she hasn’t let little Justin out of her arms since then either. I guess she's remembering what it was like to hold her son when he was a baby. I’m just glad that we were here for her when she got the news. Tell Brian and Taylor that we all love them and will be there for them. Just let us know what we can do.” “Thanks Molly I'll tell him, I just hope that Brian has the strength to come back to us again. Justin was his anchor for the last 40 years, even when he actively tried to run him off.” Finally Melanie called Michael in Florida. “Michael, this's Melanie. There's been a terrible tragedy. Gus and Justin were killed today in a shooting at the Kinney-Taylor building.” “OH MY GOD; how's Brian handling it?” “That's the problem, he isn’t handling it. It's just like when Justin was bashed he's just staring into space. Taylor's terrified of losing his Granddaddy too. It hasn’t really sunk into him that his Daddy and Justin are gone but he's really worried about losing Brian.” “Mel I’ll be there as quickly as I can get a flight to Pittsburgh. Probably tomorrow morning. How're you and Lindsay holding up?” “OK after all we have to be for Taylor’s sake. But it's hard to think of Gus and Justin being gone. Michael we're staying at Brian’s house.” “I’ll be there as early as I can. I hope that I can do some good with Brian but don’t expect too much. Justin was his life and he may not want to live without him.” “Mikey we can’t let that happen, Taylor's going to be hard hit when it sinks in that his Daddy is gone and losing Brian also would be too much. Do you have any idea why they would have had the living room set up for a 27th anniversary party?” “I thought the party was for Gus’ 40th birthday?“ “That party was set up in the dining room.“ “I don’t know why they would have such a party Mel. I’ll start making arrangements, immediately, to fly there, see you in the morning Melanie.” Melanie put the guest list down on the table and looked at the second sheet of paper. After reading the speech she called out to Lindsay. “Linds I know what the 2nd party is for.” “What? How?” “This paper Taylor found with the guest list is the speech Brian was planning on giving to the guests tonight. In it he explains the other party and why they were having it tonight.” “Well I better read it too, it might help explain why he has gone into such a funk again. Of course losing Justin and Gus was probably enough for that to happen. Brian was always more emotionally unstable than most people thought.” “OK” *** Friends and family I hope you don’t mind that I’m reading this speech. I've found that as I get older my memory isn’t as good as it used to be. So in order to keep from forgetting what I want to tell you about on this important day in my life I’ve written it all down. If on the day Gus was born someone had told me that I would be celebrating his 40th birthday I would've laughed my head off. Many of you know how much I feared turning 30; turning 70 wasn’t even a possibility to me back then. September 8 has become a very important date in my life. 40 years ago Gus was born and Justin was standing under a lamppost outside of Babylon. I once thought about buying that lamppost but the city utilities department wouldn’t let me. By now I’m sure you are all wondering why there's a 27th anniversary party set up in the living room. It's simple, on September 8 2013, Justin Craig and Brian Shawn became Mr. and Mr. Kinney-Taylor in a simple ceremony on a lovely hillside in the Republic of Ireland. Of course it wasn’t quite that simple. It took an act of extortion to get us on that hillside. Some of you may remember that Justin and I took my mother on a two-week vacation to Ireland back in '13. It was something she had always wanted to do and we all had a wonderful time. While seeing all of the tourist sites kept Justin and I busy Mom found enough free time to find out that the Republic of Ireland had recently legalized gay marriage. She then made all of the arrangements for the simple ceremony on the lovely hillside without asking us if we wanted to get married. We were scheduled to fly home on Sept 9; at supper on Sept 7 she surprised the shit out of us when she told us what we would be doing on the last day of our trip. “Brian, Justin I have arranged for the two of you to be married tomorrow; in a simple ceremony on a lovely hillside just outside of town.” “What?” We both exclaimed. “I found out that the Republic of Ireland has legalized civil marriages of gay people. Since it's become obvious to me that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania isn’t going to do the same before I die I decided that you should get married in Ireland while we're here. I'm also aware of the significance of tomorrow’s date. Now while I truly believe that the two of you are married in the eyes of God it certainly won’t hurt to be married in the eyes of the government. Once Pennsylvania finally legalizes gay marriage you'll be able to have tomorrow’s ceremony recognized back home. That's if you decide to do so when you can. There's no reason for you to argue about this, you'll be married tomorrow as a last gift to me before I die. Since it won’t mean anything back home you can just think of it as what it is; a gift to an old woman.” “Mom this's unbelievable, how could you possibly believe we would go along with something like this.” “Well darling I knew that if I asked you would say no. Since you have no say in it you have to go along with it.” “Mom.” “Brian she has us in a corner so we might as well go along with it. She's right; it really will be meaningless but if it gives her pleasure what harm can it do? We've been a couple for over 10 years now I don’t think a coerced wedding is going to hurt our relationship. Besides can you imagine how the gang will react when they find out that you and I are married.” “I don’t plan on telling anyone about being forced to get married by mother.” “Well it's better than a shotgun marriage because you got me pregnant. Sorry Joan.” “Don’t worry about it Justin. So you two'll go along with my plan?” “I will, but I suppose I'd better do the right thing. Brian Shawn Kinney will you marry me tomorrow in a simple ceremony on a lovely hillside here in the Republic of Ireland?” “Justin Craig Taylor have I ever said no to you when it really mattered?" So the next morning on a lovely hillside in the Republic of Ireland Justin and I tied the knot. 27 years later we're finally ready to tell our family about our wonderful day. I've never regretted being married to my beloved partner. As you know the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, along with the other 55 states, legalized gay marriage on July 1 of this year. Justin and I went to the county courthouse on the 2nd, since the first was on a Sunday, and had our Irish wedding certified and as far as the United States of America is concerned we've been married for 27 years as of today. So I hope all of you join us in celebrating the 40th birthday of our son Augustus Brian Peterson-Marcus and the 27th anniversary of the Kinney-Taylors. There's plenty of cake; in fact each of you has to eat some from each cake. The anniversary cake is made from my Mom’s recipe so you honor her memory by eating as much of it as you can possibly can. Everyone have an enjoyable evening. Justin and I look forward to many more to come. By the way Gus do you now understand why Justin was so against he and I having a commitment ceremony when you and Katherine were married? *** “Mel, Brian's finally willing to admit his total love for Justin to everyone in his life and Justin's taken away from him. No wonder he's fallen into this state of unawareness. It's going to be even harder to bring him back to us.” “We have to get him back Lindsay, Taylor has to have his Granddaddy, losing Brian on top of losing Justin and Gus will be more than the boy can handle.” “I know, I just hope Michael will be able to get through to him.” *** Michael called the jumpsite in Miami and scheduled a flight to Pittsburgh for the next morning. He then called Emmett. “Em I’ll be at the Pittsburgh jumpsite at 9:30 AM can you pick me up and take me to Brian’s?” “Of course Michael. I just hope you can get through to Brian, that poor boy is going to need him to get through the pain of losing his Daddy. What's Brian going to do though without Sunshine and Sonnyboy? Hell what are we going to do without Justin in our lives. Who would have guessed that that little blond twink would've become such a big part of all our lives. How will we survive without Gussy running his plans to make us all happy.” “Brian'll have to survive, if just for Taylor’s sake. He'll just have to find the emotional strength somewhere. We'll all have to be there for him though just like he's always been there for us. I just hope he hasn’t slipped too far that he can’t climb back up over the hill. I’ll see you in the morning then Em.” Michael then packed a bag, ate supper, and went to bed so that he would be ready to leave for the jumpsite early the next morning. Emmett and Ted picked Michael up at the Pittsburgh jumpsite and drove to Brian’s house. They didn’t say much during the drive since it was such a somber time in all of their lives. Justin and Gus had been such big parts of their lives for the last 40 years it was hard to imagine life without them in it. At Brian’s Taylor answered the door and showed them into the living room where Melanie and Lindsay were waiting. The room was still set up for the anniversary party, though Lindsay had put the cake into the freezer, along with the birthday cake. “Oh Mikey it's so good to see you again, I just wish it wasn’t because of such a terrible situation. We found out that this anniversary party was for Brian and Justin. Brian's mother made them get married when they visited Ireland in '13.” Lindsay said. “Why did they keep it a secret for all of these years?” “According to what Brian was going to tell us last night, we found the copy of the speech he was going to give, they didn’t say anything because legally it didn’t mean anything here in Pittsburgh until this past July when gay marriage finally became legal in the States. Plus he didn’t want to admit that his mother made him get married.” “That's the Brian Kinney we all know and love.” “Brian hasn’t really said a word since we got here yesterday and I’m getting worried since we haven’t been able to get him to eat or drink anything.” “I’ll go talk to him, Lindsay, maybe I can get through to him.” “He’s in his room Michael.” “Brian its Michael. Can you hear me? Come on Brian you have to get over this. You're scaring Taylor and he doesn’t need that to go along with losing his Daddy and Papa. Justin and Gus would want you to be strong for Taylor. Come on Brian wake up. Brian Kinney quit acting like some scared little faggot. Come back to the world for Taylor‘s sake if not your own. Of all your faults no one ever claimed that you were selfish. You have to think of Taylor now. Justin'll always be there for you in your memories but you need to be here for Taylor so that he can have good memories of them and you.” Michael kept talking to Brian for close to an hour but he got no response from his best friend. Finally he went back to the living room. “I had no luck whatsoever. He simply isn’t in this world. I’ll try again later.” “I was hoping you would have better luck than that Mikey.” Emmett said. “Brian's a tough son of a bitch, he'll get over this, you just watch.” was Ted’s response. “I don’t know Ted, I don’t know.” “Michael don’t think like that.” “I’m sorry Lindsay but he's as bad as he was that night after the Prom. We probably better start cleaning up. They were planning quite the party weren‘t they?” “Did you ever know Brian to do something halfheartedly?” Taylor had gone to his room when it finally started sinking into him that his Daddy was gone forever. He'd gotten under the covers fully clothed, was hugging a Teddy Bear that he hadn’t touched in years, and was just about to burst into tears. “Daddy are you happy now that you're with Mommy again? But Daddy you took Papa with you too, you have to send Granddaddy back to me. I can’t lose all of you.” “Brian you have to go back, you have to help our grandson deal with his loss.” “Sunshine is that you, I thought you were dead.” “I am Brian but it isn’t time for you to be with me. You have to gather the strength to help Taylor. Gus and I'll still be here when it's time for you to join us.” “I don’t want to leave you Sunshine, I want you in my arms.” “That'll happen in the future but now you have to be there for Taylor.” “I can’t leave you Sunshine.” “You have to go back Brian, you can’t be selfish, Taylor is the most important person in your life now. Taylor needs you more than Gus or I need you. When it's your time all of us will be here waiting for you.” “All of you, who's that?” “Everyone that has already died and those that will die before you do. We'll be here for you when it's your time but that time is in the future. You have to go back for Taylor. Taylor needs you more than you need to be with me. You and I'll be together forever in the fullness of time but Brian you have to take care of our grandson.” *** Taylor had been trying to hold in his feelings because he didn’t think that it would help his Granddaddy if he fell apart. But Taylor was only 14 and had lost 2 of the 3 most important men in his life with the third one teetering on the edge of leaving him as well. Finally he couldn’t control his emotions any longer and he started sobbing. At first he was able to keep the sobs fairly quiet but as time passed they became louder and louder. Brian became aware of the outside world and what he heard frightened him. His grandson was sobbing in his room and Brian knew that Taylor had finally realized what'd happened. So Brian got himself up out of his bed, walked down the hall to Taylor’s room and got onto the bed with his grandson and hugged him tight through the covers. “Taylor I’m back. I’m here for you now. I‘m sorry I scared you but Justin sent me back to take care of you. We'll get through this together. Then we'll get on with our lives. We'll always remember them. Cry as long as you need to.” When Melanie and the others got to Taylor’s room after hearing the commotion they found that Brian and Taylor were hugging each other as tightly as humanly possible and both were sobbing in sorrow. “He’s back, thank God.” Lindsay stated to the others. “Let’s let them grieve alone.” Mel said. So they returned to the living room. After a while Brian and Taylor joined them. Brian said “I want to tell you all how sorry I am for scaring you but the horror of losing Sunshine and ‘Sonnyboy’ threw me for a loop. But Justin sent me back to take care of Taylor and I intend to do that to the best of my abilities. Mikey is there any chance of you moving back to Pittsburgh? Taylor and I would be very happy if you would come live with us. I told your mother once that you and I would end up as a pair of old queens living in Palm Springs, I guess we are ending up as a pair of old queens living in Pittsburgh.” “Of course Brian I would be thrilled to move in with you and Taylor.” “Lindsay you wouldn’t have anything ready that I could eat, I feel kind of hungry.” Brian said with a grin. “I could get some cake out of the freezer.” “Maybe later but how about some of the food from last night?” “Sure Brian I’ll get you a plate.” So Brian Kinney was there for Taylor when he graduated from High School. He was there for him when he graduated from Penn State. He was there when Taylor married his college sweetheart. He was there when Taylor had to bury his grandmothers. (Melanie died of a heart attack while working in the yard, Lindsay just died in her sleep that same night, Brian always said she died of a broken heart) Taylor had the two buried in one casket. Taylor was there for Brian when Michael died of a stroke in his 75th year. But most importantly Brian was there when his triplet great-grandsons were born, Michael Gus, Brian Taylor, and Justin Kinney Peterson-Marcus. Then on the 50th anniversary (almost to the minute) of the most famous dance at the St. James Academy Brian left this world and once again found himself in the arms of his beloved Sunshine. Taylor had Brian’s ashes mixed with the ashes of Justin and the two were together for eternity.