FRIENDS …
Ann Shannon Snodgrass
We visited them last year to enjoy Mardi Gras season. The fishing trip they'd planned with us during November became, instead, an R&R trip for them in April.
We cooked their favorite foods, let our dog drag us for long walks through the neighborhood, sat and contemplated the clouds, flowers, trees. "This place is so clean," they said. "No one's putting their belongings out on the street to be hauled away," they said. "You can actually drive to a neighborhood grocery store that's open. People are smiling. It's cool here and dry, not high 80's and muggy. Your microwave works."
They're our age--mid-60's--but had never seen the
They were so grateful for a church group that visited
And, they identified this article "One Dead in Attic" that left me with such a terrible sense of sadness. http://www.nola.com/weblogs/bourbon/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_bstdiaries/archives/2005_11_17.html#094498
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Thank you.
Ann
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