So long, #505
Yesterday the papers were signed, the hands were shook, the deal was closed.
So goodbye #505, we Glovers thank you for your service. For keeping us safe through a thousand thunderstorms, for making our parents feel rich, for being the quirky, quintessential grandparents' house for my kids and for the original 6 — our North star as we navigated the world. Just a few photos and associated memories that I'm just gonna leave right here...
Where the bunny yard was/Where the clothesline was because we couldn't afford to run the dryer/Where the toe crushing snapping turtles hung out/Where I know I lost my lily of the valley liddle kiddle
Where once there was a proper garden/Where I helped Dado build my sandbox/Where the path to the Pappas' was/Where I first met Sundance the goat/Where Brandy and Lady and Jolie and Poko and Rusty and Finster and Stryder and Gypsy and Kelly and Josie and Tess Truheart and Cara Mia are buried.
Where we kept our pigeons/Close to the compost pile which I always hated/Where there was a hidden trap door in the floor/Where the Hell's Angels and the FBI had shared interests for a brief while
Where we would call in the cats/Where we would crawl out on to the roof/Where my mother decorated for my 6th birthday with orange and black crepe paper/where I stepped in a jello mold on thanksgiving
Where I would sneak cigarettes/Where I got ready for the prom/Where I got ready for my wedding/Where I did the Prel pearl experiment with my mother's earring
Where Sundance would wait for me when I got off the school bus/Where I posed for Alison's photography project set to 'House on Pooh Corner' sophomore year
Where Dado told me he had cancer/Where I told my parents I was pregnant with Alex/The place where I learned to cook/The place I used to spit liver and onions into my napkin and down the heating vent/Where Dado's tag sale radio was always tuned to a Yankees game/Where we were when I told my mother that Keith had died
The house that grown-up Keith visited every day/Where they brought me home to from St. Rae's in 1963/The place where I got married/the place where the Glovers called home for 55 years
