denouement

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. | Wednesday, June 2, 2010 | Hampshire St. -

Finally we are done with the stair.

We finished in the afternoon.


The last things. Priming and painting the drainpipe, the kneebracing by the kitchen door. Trimming the plum tree.


The upstairs neighbors, two of them anyway, two young women, burst open the door that had been barred shut for months, since long before we'd arrived. They stepped out onto the deck in shorts and bare feet. Already one was talking on the phone, inviting someone over for dinner. "We have an awesome new deck," she was saying.

Word was already spreading.



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