By deeanndmathews on Skatehive
Ten-year-old Glendella Ludlow got up and walked out of her new home in Tinyville, VA … her old home was bigger, and the people there would have said this was all a step down … living surrounded by fallow fields because of the restoration project being worked on in that section of town, and yet old crops' seedlings were still yielding fruit and vegetables that little neighbors could come and get … Glendella, under the watchful eye of adoptive (grand)mother Mrs. Thalia Ludlow, went across the road into the field and looked across … some of her new cousins the Hamiltons were in the front of their house and across the road in the field, and she knew the cousins – Hamiltons, Ludlows, and Lees – were thinking of pooling their resources and buying that field outright. But the main thing was, they waved. Glendella grinned and waved and waved and grinned until the Hamiltons went inside, and then went back across the road and up to her new (grand)mother. “You know, my biological parents and gran