My Neighbors Treated My Fence Like It Was Theirs Until I Finally Put a Stop to It

“Oh, yeah. Sometimes things spill over when we’re drying.”

I nodded. I smiled back. I said yeah, that made sense, even though it didn’t, because spilling over doesn’t clip itself neatly to a fence rail.

Walking back inside, I told myself the conversation had accomplished something. That the awareness had been raised, that things would change. And for continue reading …