You don’t think you’ll become a ghost, and then one day you’re sitting in the total silence of everything you thought you forgot. From a distance some laughter erupts. It’s your own apparition. A version of you from forty years ago. You hear your mom’s voice. It’s warm. You’re in the kitchen of the giant The post Commentary: This Old House appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

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