A tribute to the family next door after 15 incredible years
Robert Frost said, ?Good fences make good neighbours,? but I?m forever grateful for the low chain-link fence that allowed me to befriend you, Andrea and Graeme. When we first moved into the neighbourhood, I?d hoped for a large wood fence for privacy?s sake. I like visiting as much as the next person, but I also love letting my dogs out at four in the morning wearing nothing but a towel.
We first met the two of you 15 years ago, when you and my husband, Bob, built homes next to each other in a new community in Calgary. I moved in with Bob shortly after and immediately took to the couple next door. You were quiet and warm, and when I saw Andrea reading a novel on your back deck with the sun shining down on her, I thought, ?This is my kind of person.? Like most suburbanites, we didn?t see each other much in the beginning. We?d pull into our garages after work and drive away the next day. But once we started having children, all of that changed.
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I?m too awkward to make mom friendsThose tender shoots of friendship took root when you had your first child about 10 months before our daughter Claire was born. Claire was only a few hours old when Andrea dropped by with a soft new sleeper for her and a basket of muffins warm from the oven. I?m a little h...
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