Epilogue
October 22, 1982
It was one year later to the day that the sale of Joe Downing’s property closed to a group of hunters who planned to tear down the old house and build a cabin for their annual deer camp. Because Downing left no will, his estate went to his only living relative, his daughter Gloria. She kept all of her mother’s things and a few of her own. She took the sheets and blankets from her bed too. She and Kris brought them to the riverside and burned them while drinking wine and listening to the radio. She nearly had a stroke when the banker opened the safe deposit box and there had been over fourteen thousand dollars in it. An auction was held to get rid of Joe Downing’s things and the big ticket item had been the grow lights he’d used to cultivate his m*******a plants.
