While I Was at Lunch With My Daughter My Neighbor Called and Asked Why Someone Was Loading Boxes From My House

thirty years as an emergency room nurse before she retired, and she did not call over small things. I answered immediately.

She asked if I was home.

I told her no.

Her voice came through clipped and low: “Then why is there a moving truck in your driveway? A big one, Harold. With a crew. They’re carrying boxes out of your house right now and I’m looking continue reading …