"Have you always lived here on Cobb Hill?" she asked.

"Yep. I was born right here in this house. My granny delivered me in the master bedroom. She did the same for my brother and sister, too." He didn‘t mention that when grandpa died he had been laid out right in the middle of the living room in his casket. By the time that his parents had passed away they had done things at a funeral home and granny had fussed about it until she was allowed to tend to the bodies.

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