The Most Loving Thing to Do

And the things we leave undone for love

The email came with no fanfare or accolades. The selling of a house is a transaction, hardly a transference. The only thing they owe us is the promised price; the only thing we owe them is a house in the same condition in which they’d promised the price. There is nothing in the money that changes hands that tells the story of the family, the children, t…