I’ll Always Love You
Chapter 1
“You almost finished up there?”
Jeremy heard the scratchy voice of Dot, short for Dorothy, who was the owner of Dot’s Stop, the hardware store just outside the city center of Columbia Falls. Jeremy closed up the box of plastic PVC pipes from where he was crouched in the dusty attic, doing inventory the old-school way, with a clipboard and pencil, because Dot was a believer that going digital was a recipe for impending disaster. No matter how much Jeremy tried to convince her of the efficiency and ease, not to mention the better use of his time, she wouldn’t budge. If everything were digitally recorded, at her fingertips, so she knew exactly what she had, he’d never be stuck in a too-small attic again.
“Yeah, just…” He stood up and banged his head on the s
