My Family Tried to Move Into My Mountain House Without Asking

who had been holding a heavy thing and was beginning to understand that no one was going to take it from him.

“Your mother hasn’t stopped crying,” he said.

“I’m sorry she’s hurting,” I said. “That doesn’t change what happened.”

He said they had been trying to help me. That I lived alone up here and they worried. That the kids needed space and he didn’t continue reading …