The Last Furnace Call Before Winter
Winterization call at a lake house northeast of Guthrie, late October. The owners were closing it up for the season. Twenty-two years of the same closing. They worked while I worked. He stacked the porch cushions in the storage room. She rinsed the breakfast dishes with a deliberateness that had nothing to do with dishes. Every motion had the weight of a last one for a while. Neither of them talked much. I didn't either. Some jobs are better served by silence. Constantine Sedikides and Tim Wildschut published research in 2008 on nostalgia. Nostalgia is not primarily about the past. It is a…
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