Chapter 60

Summary

• The chapter is set six years later, with Celia and the narrator having spent more than a decade together in Spain, and their son Connor having graduated college and started a job on Wall Street.
• The world has forgotten about Celia's numerous successes, including her three Oscar wins.
• Cecelia ("Celia") Jamison dies from respiratory failure while in the narrator's arms.
• The narrator describes the scene as she passes away; the smell of sickness in the room, the open windows carrying in a beach breeze.
• The narrator calls for the nurse, who had been downstairs, and describes the profound sense of loss and emptying as paramedics took her away.
• When everyone had left, the narrator collapsed to the floor in grief, which is where he stayed along with Robert, who also wept over Celia's passing.
• The narrator describes his devastation as panic set in following the loss of Celia, his soulmate and a woman whose love he had spent his life earning.