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PLEASE don’t be here! Please don’t be here! Please don’t be here! Willa begged the universe to grant her this one wish as she got out of the car in front of Greenlee Place.
The universe’s answer to her pleas appeared in the form of Kate Greenlee Grant, blinking onto the porch, and bouncing from foot to foot as she said, “Oh, he’s wonderful, Willa. Just wonderful. I can’t believe I have a grandson!”
She then screwed her face up with mock severity. “Though shame on you young lady for not telling me about him.”
Okay, she did not expect these to be the first words out of Kate’s mouth upon finding out she had a half-“colored” grandson. Just went to show how much dying could change a person. Guaranteed, most people would have thought Katherine would be rolling around in her grave over thi
