Dean's World

Chapter 29

Ann Arbor, March, 2005 CE

She was packing for the ride back to Pennsylvania when I arrived that last morning to see her off. She was, she’d told me, going home. That word, “home,” had resonated from her voice a few times in a way I didn’t really understand.

Pennsylvania was obviously pretty important to her, but I couldn’t get her to tell me much about it. I knew there was someone named Edna that she thought the world of, and I knew Edna had a son named Joshua who was a lawyer that she also admired. She thought of them as family somehow, but any time I tried to get her to tell me more she’d find some way—sometimes subtle, sometimes blatant—to change the subject. But Pennsylvania was home to her, and while part of her wanted to stay away from it, part of her couldn’t wait to get back. She’d had enough of farting around here in Michigan working with me and toying with college kids. Apparently whatever conflicts were going on down there were settled up and she was done with the Wolverine State. She wanted me to meet her down there in a week or two for more talks once she’d settled in.

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