The last voices from the house had faded. Light still shone through a single upstairs window, while the garden lay in darkness.

his hands in his jacket pockets.

“I wanted you to ask.”

“I thought you wanted me to leave you alone.”

“That was the problem with us.”

“What?”

“We kept respecting requests nobody actually made.”

Dad offered a sad smile.

“Yes.”

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They stood together before Luis wandered over to the unfinished teaching room and inspected the wall. RentApartments

“What are you doing with this wall?”

“Windows.”

“Too small.”

“You haven’t seen the plans.”

“I’ve photographed workshops for thirty years. They’re too small.”

Dad knitted his brows.

“They are perfectly adequate.”

Luis called out to Derek.

“Your father is already ruining the building.”

Derek looked delighted as the two brothers began quarreling over window sizes after forty years of silence. Mom joined me. CompareWindows

“Good.”

“You call that good?”

“They’re discussing windows.”

She smiled at the ordinary disagreement.

“Not the past.”

Luis stayed involved