I Found Something Strange In My Smoke Detector

was a clock on it. He’d say things like, my dad’s getting up there, and the place is worth four times what he thinks. I didn’t know what to do with it then. I thought it was just talk.”

I thanked her. I meant it. I told her she did not owe me anything and that calling had been a kindness. I sat in the truck a while after we hung up.

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