Chapter 20
Northern Minnesota
It was the end of their third week together. The beginning of the week had been windy with thick rolling clouds tumbling across the sky, bellowing their warning of oncoming storms, but today was eerily quiet with a gentle breeze. Gray silent clouds hovered in the heavens as the three women rode in Helene’s rental car. They were heading out to the farm, the home of their childhood. Alice had recently been there, but Helene and Suzanne had not stepped foot there since they left many years ago.
It was time. They needed to go back. They felt a force pulling them back to the house, back to the setting of their childhood, back to the bad memories and perhaps buried somewhere, the good ones as well.
The camaraderie in the car was strong. In the short time they ha
