Chapter 23
Chapter 23
The next day, Alissa and I packed for the trip back to Nashville. We begged Momma to come stay with us for a few weeks so she could see the grandchildren and get away, but she would have none of it. When we packed our luggage into the trunk of the car, we stood in the yard, and I tried one last time to convince her before we left. “Momma, please. Please come stay with us even just a couple few weeks, just a week. The kids would love to see you, and you know you need a break from all this.”
“Oh Lord of mercy,” she said. “This place would fall apart if there wasn’t somebody here to take care of it.”
“Momma, maybe it needs to fall apart,” I replied. “Maybe it needs to sink back into the earth and be reclaimed by nature. Think about coming to live in Nashville. You kn
