optional soundtrack: “If It Makes You Happy” by Sheryl Crow
Heidi stepped out of her junky car and into the biting cold air of late February. Everything seemed colder back in her hometown of Lansing. Perhaps she had just gotten too used to the urban heat complex of Kimball Station. Or maybe it was something else.
The door of the triplex’s leftmost unit swung open, her nephews walking out into the yard in shock.
“Aunt Heidi?”
