The Orange House

By Devin Wylde

When Diane's Mother passes away, she and her family get together to do a will-reading.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329152519

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The Orange House

by D. Wylde

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He’d made a fortune out of stocks,

he couldn't count his worth;

He'd hoarded up a store of gold,

a section of the earth;

But still he sighed alone and talked

of all the world's distress,

And mentioned to his dearest friends:

'Gold won't buy happiness.'

-Edgar Albert Guest

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PART ONE

April showers bring May flowers. Something my Mother used to tell me every year when April hit. Funny that in this month of April rain, she died.

My mother had been dead for two days before I even found out. I was told she looked like a wax figure, like her skin seemed to just tighten up over her body, and the dead veins were popping almost out of her skin. I wouldn’t know, seeing as I didn’t attend the funeral, for a simple reason; my mother was a fairly intelligent woman, but in no way a good example for her daughter. She had always been