When I was a child, my bedroom was 12 feet down a short hallway from my parents’ room.
In those days when windows were opened wide for the smell of honeysuckle and the choir of crickets to drift in, I would lie in bed and listen to the sounds of the night. If my door was open a bit – and usually it was – I could hear Mama and Daddy as they lay in bed, talking about the day or discussing decisions to be made.
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