Minister Without Portfolio
“They were just after pulling up the supper plates from the table and there were children in the living room playing on a computer. Two decks of cards on the counter next to the phone. Harold’s wife wiped the table and he waited for the table top to be dry and he accepted the cold beer Harold handed him and then he said to the three grandsons that what he had to offer for their grandfather’s house wasn’t much but it was all he could afford— he was interrupted then by Harold Careen’s wife who cal...led out, from loading the dishwasher, that house could fall into the ground before Harold would sell out his grandfather’s legacy and Harold said Joan that’s enough. Henry said he was sorry about that, he understood the passing down of things and the loss of things, but that this house had a hole in the roof the size of a wheelbarrow and the porches were sagging and after the next big wind that house probably would cave in like Joan says. I understand, he said, that if the grandsons of the man who built this house want an acre of land with no service to it then I will honour that, but perhaps a man’s wishes take a detour and the promise of a home is cherished by a stranger just as much as the blood of the family and there is something both humble and generous in allowing the passing of a house to someone who wishes to care for it and no amount of money could equal that wish of those upon which burdens are handed down.MoreLess
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