'Never Leave Me'
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those effers who bought the house I grew up in cut down all the trees!They're tearing down the house (that my dad built cause my mom was pregnant) I grew up in. It's been sold for several years and was languishing. But it just resold and, yeah, it's going to be torn down.
I'm not sure I wanted to know that. And I haven't told my dad yet, actually.
no one will ever walk those floors again. Freaks me out thinking about it and I've never even been there. Do houses die?
If they do, this is a mercy killing. Tragically. The house died for me a long time ago.
The new owners didn't have anyone living there for several years and there were squaters. It was really destroyed, so I know this is what needs to happen but it still is upsetting.
I just ... I am going to miss it.
My folks still live in the house I grew up in. It seems a lot smaller.
I miss the house where I spent high school. We moved a lot, and I don't miss them all, but I miss that one like whoa. It was the home-iest home we ever had, and it was never really ours since we rented, but it's the house in my head when I think of *home* and it's the house a lot of my fictional characters live in now.
It had a front porch and a butler's pantry, and a little dresser built into my closet, and old glass doorknobs and black push-button light switches, and a clawfoot tub, and a walk-up attic with a little room in the front.
Houses can die, I think. I really believe houses have their own vibes, and a lot of impressions left by the people who live in them. Ours had a lot of good ones.
It had a front porch and a butler's pantry, and a little dresser built into my closet, and old glass doorknobs and black push-button light switches, and a clawfoot tub, and a walk-up attic with a little room in the front.
Oh, wow. That sounds absolutely charming.
I would just like to point out that in a google search for vampire people Allyson's book ranks higher than the movie that is actually titled, "Vampire People" and in an MSN search it is #1!
Hey Allyson - you might want to update your website to say the book is now available. (It still says the book will be available in August.)
Also, go you! on the search engines!
My parents live in the house where I spent most of my childhood, but we were peripatetic and then some. I haven't lived there since I was 12.
And my parents have done just about everything possible to redo the house so it's not familiar at all.
Which is fair. There are a multitude of reasons I can't fit in it anymore.
Ooh. I don't Allyson reads this thread, so I'll mention the availability thing to her somewhere else.
My mother and stepfather still live (in the winter months) in the house where I grew up from the time I was two. They plan on selling it when my mother retires next summer, and I am sure I will be really sad when that happens.