He Was Sure the Old Owner Deserved the Broken Heat Pump
I left a house this afternoon where the furnace was not the real problem. The furnace was just old and tired and finally quit, the way furnaces do. The real problem was that the woman who owned it was certain she had done something to deserve it. She kept circling back to it while I worked. I should have had it looked at last spring, she said. I knew I should have. And then, quieter, like she was confessing: things like this happen to me. I want to talk about that today, because what she was doing in her own head is something almost every one of us does, and it runs a lot deeper than a broken…
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