The Last Days of October
“ Amber recalled their small yard at the house on the naval base in Norfolk. The Navy dressed its homes identically, just as it did its sailors. Her friend Joy, who had moved from Pensacola last year, said that for the first week or two she could only identify her house by her mom’s car sitting in the driveway. She lived in fear that her parents would drive off somewhere and she’d have to walk around the neighborhood like a dumbass until they got home. Everything looked the same.
Each of th...e townhouses had a small flower bed and patch of grass up front. Senior enlisted like Dad got end lots or one of the single-family units standing alone on postage stamp lots. As he transferred from command to command on his way up the ladder, the Palmers had moved from a middle unit to an end unit and finally, when he made Chief Petty Officer, a detached home. This came with not only bigger bedrooms, but a lawn large enough to justify the purchase of a gas-powered mower. So Dad had gone out and bought one with mental problems.MoreLess
Each of th...e townhouses had a small flower bed and patch of grass up front. Senior enlisted like Dad got end lots or one of the single-family units standing alone on postage stamp lots. As he transferred from command to command on his way up the ladder, the Palmers had moved from a middle unit to an end unit and finally, when he made Chief Petty Officer, a detached home. This came with not only bigger bedrooms, but a lawn large enough to justify the purchase of a gas-powered mower. So Dad had gone out and bought one with mental problems.MoreLess
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