Gina
Everything is going great until it isn’t. First, my father shows up hauling a trailer full of boxes.
“Surprise!” he says.
He’s moving in. He didn’t exactly put it in those terms, but that’s the gist of it. He’s finally letting the tax man take the farm, and he needs a place to live. Of course, he’d never utter those words in a million years. My father doesn’t like to lose.
“The men in the overcoats came back,” he told me. “I didn’t like the look of them.”
I see his mouth moving, but it’s pride I hear talking. “What’d they say?”
“Nothing of importance,” he said, waving me off. “You know, probably just nosing around, trying to stir up trouble. But it made for a good reason to get out of town.”
Mona arrives with him, which is probably the bigger surprise. “There’s nothing there fo
