Move back north

The question arrived as a house for sale and left as something else entirely: whether she wanted her mother's last years or her own next ten. We spent one whole session on the trains, because the practical answer was doing all the emotional work and needed to be let off duty. The fourth session was a list of what she would have to build in a town of nine thousand people, written in her own hand. She moved in August with the flat kept, rented out, for a year.