I figured she’d be happy to hear that I’d paid attention to something she told me. But it looked as though she’d been sitting on bigger news than I had.“I been meaning to tell you.” Granny nodded at the pile of boxes stacked beneath her wall phone. “My oldest daughter, Stella, wants me to come to Arkansas. Her husband was a logger there. Died in an accident. Good man.”“You’re moving.”“Yes’m. Looks like it’s time I went on. I’ve done everything I aimed to do in this life. Even outlived Old Man.” Granny sighed. “Stella and me have had our disagreements. I want to make things right while I still can.” She limped across her living room and lifted a framed photo of a petite brunette woman from a shelf. “She never forgave me for staying with Old Man. If I’d’ve been able to leave ‘im, I would have.”“What did he do to make her so mad?”Granny opened her front door to let out some of the hot air. She’d been running her old gas heater too high again.
