When I’d visited my mother two weeks before, I found her sitting in a chair in the dining room of her memory care home out in the Amish country of Hiram Ohio. She really looked quite beautiful, but she had always been beautiful to me. Her hair had been done, her blue eyes were large […]
September 2017 Chapter 1 As I turned left from Bayes onto Brown Road in Lakewood, the familiar, repetitive, beep-beep-beeping of heavy construction equipment didn’t strike my ears as unusual. A few years earlier, when my father was still alive, the city had demolished Roosevelt Elementary School, a red brick rectangular structure just a block away […]
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