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MY NEW NEIGHBOR, AN OLD WOMAN, MOVED INTO THE VACANT HOUSE NEXT DOOR. A WEEK LATER, SHE CAME TO VISIT. "TONIGHT AT 2 AM, BRING YOUR SON TO MY HOUSE AND COME UPSTAIRS." "WHY?" "YOU'LL UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU GET THERE." THAT NIGHT AT 2 AM, I CARRIED MY SON TO HER HOUSE. THE MOMENT I LOOKED AT MY HOME FROM HER SECOND-FLOOR WINDOW I WAS SPEECHLESS.

MY NEW NEIGHBOR, AN OLD WOMAN, MOVED INTO THE VACANT HOUSE NEXT DOOR. A WEEK LATER, SHE CAME TO VISIT. "TONIGHT AT 2 AM, BRING YOUR SON TO MY HOUSE AND COME UPSTAIRS." "WHY?" "YOU'LL UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU GET THERE." THAT NIGHT AT 2 AM, I CARRIED MY SON TO HER HOUSE. THE MOMENT I LOOKED AT MY HOME FROM HER SECOND-FLOOR WINDOW I WAS SPEECHLESS.

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At 2:07 in the morning, I watched my husband carry a red gasoline can through our kitchen. He was supposed to be three hundred miles away on a business trip. A week earlier, Evelyn Shaw had moved into the vacant house next door. She was seventy, silver-haired, and so quiet that my husband, Daniel, called her “the cemetery’s receptionist.” Daniel had been…

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