Chapter 12 - Nora Keeps the Land Intact
Several people advised me to sell.
The acreage had become emotionally heavy.
Developers made generous offers.
One exceeded anything Garrett and I had imagined.
I declined.
Not because keeping the land proved strength.
Because I still wanted to live there.
That was the only reason that mattered.
I placed conservation restrictions on part of the eastern timber with
professional guidance.
I negotiated a limited emergency-access arrangement benefiting
neighboring landowners without giving Wade’s project the commercial
corridor he wanted.
The timber damage was assessed.
Civil claims were resolved through counsel.
Some money was recovered.
Some trees could never be replaced in my lifetime.
I replanted anyway.
Garrett would have liked that.
He always planted too close together.
May you like
I corrected his spacing.
Then cried because there was nobody beside me to argue about it.
