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Sometimes he cried. Sometimes he just stared out the window with his jaw clenched.
“Maybe build them closer to the house?” I suggested once.
He’s the one doing the wrong thing.”
My son wasn’t wrong.
I tried again with Mr. Streeter a week later. He’d just pulled in, the sky already dark.
“Hey,” I called, walking over.
“You drove over his snowman again.”
“It’s dark,” he said without missing a beat. “I don’t see them.”
“That doesn’t change the fact that you’re driving on my lawn,” I said. “You’re not supposed to do that at all.
Snowman or no snowman.”
“I’m asking you to respect our property,” I said. “And my kid.”
He smirked.
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