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How The Harzy House Changed My Life

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After a long two hour drive our car would pull up in Ware, Massachusetts. We would pull down the street as Dad would gently turn the wheel in order to avoid the potholes which lined the avenue. Then I would see it. The Harzy house. The house of the older couple, my third set of grandparents. We would drive past it and into the driveway next door. When I saw the green truck sitting in the open garage, I knew Johnny was home. When we pulled into our grandparents driveway I would fly out the door, ready to unpack with haste so I could run through the slot between the evergreen bushes over to the side door. I always knew what to expect, Laurette, her face gleaming with a smile, her giggle would force its way through the window pane, where it then would cause my face …show more content…

They were two artists that had found a color within one another, one that had changed their outlook on life, a color that they could not picture life without, a color that would never from that point on leave their memory. Tick, tick. When the sun would go to rest from the sky, its rays would darken the house, but not the spirit. They would receive a call from my grandmother next door. “Oh, hi Barbara how are you? Yes, we have our grandson over here. Ok, I send him back in giffy. Ok, bye bye now.” As the phone hung up I looked at the clock, or I had lost track of time. “They want you home now hun.” I would stand hug and kiss the two, and be on my way. “I love you!” I’d say running out the door, over the squeaking door that swung forward then back. “Bye, see you tomorrow!” As the hinges peeped closed I could hear Johnny through the windows, “I can fix that.” Tick, tick. As I grew older I never thought the day would come. Although, every time we would come, we would hear stories of Johnny being in the hospital. Between a bad cold, doctors finding skin cancer, and mesothelioma, we knew the time would come. Laurette I had died. Unexpectedly. Tick,

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