Burning Down the House (2008)
Burning Down the House
“Time to find work, even if that meant moving hundreds of miles to Toronto. At least that was the plan, and I thought it was a good one.
After we left Wolfville, I didn’t plan on ever fighting fires again. I’d only been in the department for a little more than a year and a half, on call every single night, but leaving the department was actually more difficult than leaving my family and heading off to college had been. I’d married my high school sweetheart, we’d finished college together, and li...ke many people in the Atlantic provinces we were heading for Toronto. Barby was going to go to art school and I was going to find a full-time job—any full-time job. By then I was the only arts graduate in my family, with an honours degree in philosophy and not very much in the way of solid prospects.
I’d changed, too. For months, as Barby watched me get more and more involved with the fire department, I had been telling her less and less about the most serious calls. It just didn’t seem important.MoreLess
After we left Wolfville, I didn’t plan on ever fighting fires again. I’d only been in the department for a little more than a year and a half, on call every single night, but leaving the department was actually more difficult than leaving my family and heading off to college had been. I’d married my high school sweetheart, we’d finished college together, and li...ke many people in the Atlantic provinces we were heading for Toronto. Barby was going to go to art school and I was going to find a full-time job—any full-time job. By then I was the only arts graduate in my family, with an honours degree in philosophy and not very much in the way of solid prospects.
I’d changed, too. For months, as Barby watched me get more and more involved with the fire department, I had been telling her less and less about the most serious calls. It just didn’t seem important.MoreLess
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