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âRight here,â I said. âWhy would the two of you even think of going anywhere else? Roosevelt Lodge is your home, the only one youâve known forâŠhow many years?â
Gertie looked over at her husband. âFifty?â
Bernie cleared his throat one last time, and then said, âAt least. I think. How old was we when we found the ramshackle old place, Gert? Twenty-five? Twenty-eight? Iâll be eighty-one come January.â
âA few years back,â Gertie calculated. âBut whatdyaâ meanâŠyouâd actually buy the place, anâ weâd stay on?â
âExactly,â I told her. âWhoâd run Roosevelt Lodge if you left, for Godâs sake? I donât know anything about running a hotel.â
Bernie came alive all of the sudden.
âItâd be mighty expensive, Matthew. I meanâŠthere ainât nowhere in these hills that can compare toâŠâ
âName your priceâŠDad.â I hazarded that moniker, and as expected, Bernie ate it up. Gertie had taken hold of his arm way back at the words âtwenty-five? Twenty-eight?â, and now she squeezed it with a look of joyous resolution on her chubby face. Having sat at this table for over a month, I knew that within a year, tops, heâd have to make the hardest choice of his life; sell his wonderful lodge and somehow move on, or try to continue managing it and collapse. Even with faithful Charlie around to do the physicalâŠRoosevelt Lodge would kill him.
ImprintText: (c) Patrick Sean Lee-2010
Editing: Patrick Sean Lee
Publication Date: 11-21-2010
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Dedication:
To my wife who inspires me to create a new book with every word she speaks.
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