Good-bye to a House

Memory would help me hold onto and let go of my grandmother's home.

he day my grandmother's house was to be sold I went there and opened the door. As I'd driven by over the ten years since my grandmother died, I'd watched curtains change as various renters came and went. But the last time I'd stepped inside was when my family gathered to dismantle the home my grandmother had spent her lifetime building. Now I walked through every empty room to call each one back to the way it had been, so that memory would help me hold on and let go. Anyone who knows me knows how attached I become to places and things.

 




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