At 76, I Bought Back Our First Home for $3—The Mayor Called Our House an Embarrassment—One Year Later, It Was Worth More Than His Mansion

fact that you’re 76 and Mom is 74. You’re living in a four-hundred-square-foot construction site.”

Edith wiped soil from her hands.

“Sit down.”

They sat on the storage bench Frank had built.

Edith brought out the cardboard box.

Her diploma.

Her textbooks.

Her old designs on tracing paper.

“I earned this degree in 1974,” she said. “I put it away because that continue reading …