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Someone Else's House Now
Posted On Monday September 17, 2007 By Matthew
I remember having rootbeer floats on the porch swing on hot summer nights. I remember eating sweet corn and chocolate cake on my birthdays. I remember playing with my cousins and the neighbors in the side yard. I remember running to the train tracks just a few blocks away and counting the train cars (sometimes over 100!) as they streamed by. I remember “Uncle” Bill showing me his missing finger that he lost while working the trains. I remember my 103 year old great-grandmother Lila waking up at dawn every morning to cook everyone breakfast (bacon and eggs). I remember walking to the corner store to buy comics and baseball cards with my mother. This is someone else’s house now but my memories still live there.
Tags: great-grandmother, house, memories, summer
This Location: Somonauk, Illinois
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This is indeed a lovely home. I miss my old turn-of-the-century home I left in Kansas when I moved to Florida. I can tell you love the house very much. The only solace I have that perhaps may help you is that there is another family living in the house who love it and are building wonderful new memories there. Thank you for sharing it’s loveliness with all of us.
— Laura Sunday December 23, 2007 #