Chapter 17: Something Bright

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Chapter 17: Something BrightDinner turned out to be one of Garner’s favorites—chicken and turkey roll-ups served with Aunt Jenny’s own potato salad recipe. When they had put the dishes in the sink to soak, his aunt suggested they have their coffee in the gazebo. She loaded the tray and Garner carried it, following her lead, along the familiar winding path, around bushes and flowers, to the gazebo that they had built in the small glade back in the wooded part of the property. Garner remembered how they had built it, and how exciting—and painful: he had incurred scores of minor injuries during the construction—it had been. His aunt had bought a set of plans from the hardware store in town, and when they had received the delivery of the necessary supplies and tools, she had smiled at him and

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