Vc andrews let there be thorns5/29/2023 I guess one of the saddest things about growing bigger, and older, was that no one was large enough, or strong enough, to pick you up and hold you close and make you feel that safe again.Ĭhris was my mother's third husband. I didn't remember his face nearly as well as I remembered the nice warm and safe feeling he gave me. I remembered a tall man with dark hair turning gray a man who called me his son. The fog was spooky, but it was also romantic and mysterious.Īs much as I loved my home, I had vague, disturbing memories of a southern garden full of giant magnolia trees dripping with Spanish moss. The fog would roll in in great billowing waves and often shrouded the landscape all day, turning everything cold and eerie. There was a redwood forest on the other side of the mountains, and the ocean too. We lived in Fairfax, Marin County, about twenty miles north of San Francisco. To reach my home I had to travel a winding narrow road without any houses until I came to the huge deserted mansion that invariably drew my eyes, making me wonder who had lived there why had they deserted it? When I saw that house I automatically slowed, knowing soon I'd be home.Īn acre from that house was our home, sitting isolated and lonely on a road that had more twists and turns than a puzzle maze that leads the mouse to the cheese. Whenever Dad didn't drive me home from school, a yellow school bus would let me off at an isolated spot where I would recover my bike from the nearest ravine, hidden there each morning before I stepped onto the bus.
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