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Wyatt looked at the checks. Then he looked at me. He had my father’s eyebrows and his mother’s stubborn, silent anger.
“She doesn’t know about the courtesy folder, does she?” he asked.
“She does not,” I said. “And we aren’t going to tell her. We are going to let her sign her own deposition.”
Before I unleashed the heavy artillery, I decided to give the decent folks in that subdivision a chance. I hosted a quiet meeting in my barn that Tuesday evening. I invited six HOA residents I thought might be reasonable. Three showed up: a retired teacher named Francis, a young father named Jed, and a widowed hydrologist named Lorraine.
I laid out the 14 years of courtesy payments on a hay bale. I showed them the paperwork. I explained that whoever owns the land decides what happens to the road.
Lorraine looked at the checks for a long minute. “I voted for her,” she said quietly. “I am extremely sorry.”
“Mrs. Pike, you’re not the one who owes me an apology,” I told her.
