When I returned from a trip to Chicago, my landscaper noticed that our shared fence had been moved six inches onto my property. My neighbor Gary blamed a contractor, but every post had been reset in a straight line. Then I found freshly disturbed soil beside a flowering bush and dug up a metal box engraved with his late wife Ellen\u2019s name.
\nGary admitted he had moved the fence while I was away. Ellen had loved looking at that bush, and he had buried a box of her keepsakes beside it so the spot would appear to be on his side. But inside the box was a letter from Ellen asking him to do something much simpler: ask me for a cutting to plant in his own yard.
\nI understood why the place mattered to him, but I told him the fence had to go back. Gary paid to restore it, and I gave him two cuttings. One survived. By the following spring, it had bloomed beside Ellen\u2019s box on his side of the fence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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