Debbie Couture

"Her dad's belongings"

She was grieving as they cleaned out her dad's belongings. The workshop was full of boxes: rusty hinges, light sockets, outlets, and old paint cans. There was even a wall of vintage license plates. There were hand tools, jars of nails, and screws. Decades worth of things her dad saw value in. They found his pipes and tobacco. The hall closet was full of his sweatshirts and sweaters with pockets full of mints and lifesavers. They weren’t just belongings; they represented the lifetime of one special man. And oh, how she found it so difficult to part with it all.