Letter: Their Names Are Written There

Letter: Their Names Are Written There

Five months, four hours, three minutes. Five months spent scouring, scraping, and scrubbing, returning their childhood home to its former glory. Four hours from listing to full-price offer, the very first prospective visitor became buyer. Three minutes now, never enough, to sit on the porch and see even still the red stockings, red-trimmed lunchbox, and red satchel filled with color crayons and other beginning learner essentials, of the first wh…