GS-At the Christmas celebration, I overheard my daughter-in-law proudl…

that low, pleased voice people use when they think the rest of the house is too polite to listen. The door to the upstairs guest room was open just enough for her words to drift into the hallway with the smell of vanilla candle wax and expensive perfume.

My beach house.

My old, cedar-shingled, wind-worn, salt-smelling house on the coast of Maine.

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