Last summer, a man in one of the villages up the road sold the house in which he'd been born and lived for eighty-one years, and bought and moved into the house next door. A friend of mine asked him why. The fellow said, poker-faced, 'I reckon it's just the gypsy in me.'


Coming From Away (1997)

Barbara Holland Quotes

Last summer, a man in one of the villages up the road sold the house in which he'd been born and lived for eighty-one years, and bought and moved...

Last summer, a man in one of the villages up the road sold the house in which he'd been born and lived for eighty-one years, and bought and moved...

Last summer, a man in one of the villages up the road sold the house in which he'd been born and lived for eighty-one years, and bought and moved...

Last summer, a man in one of the villages up the road sold the house in which he'd been born and lived for eighty-one years, and bought and moved...