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The next day, Monday, when I got home from work I began planting another garden out back. The one I had planted the day I first moved in seemed too small after I weeded it. It was a little late in the season to start another garden but I cleared a spot and hoed it out so I would have it ready for the next year. I stood surveying my work, trying to decide what to do with the fresh empty soil in front of me. Then, my hands all stained with dirt, I pulled my notebook out of my shirt pocket. Who to call? I debated texting Shelly to ask if there was a bonfire somewhere. Tomorrow I was going to Janet’s but tonight maybe there were some elders who would enjoy a visitor. My eyes fell on the name Czernak. It was on the bottom of the first page of my list. I wondered if Heidi had mentioned them or if it had been Mr. Bonn. Who were they, though? I went inside and looked them up by name, number, and city. I called the number. A child answered.

“Are your folks home?”

“Sure, here’s my mom.”

I could hear a woman shouting at someone about some cats. Then her voice came on the phone, short of breath and suspicious, “Hello, who is this?”

“Hi. I am Edmund, a new pastor in town. I was hoping to get to know people in the area and wondered if you would mind if I came to visit. I have your address and I notice you live just five minutes from me.”

“You can come over and help me do the dishes and clean up,” the woman said coldly.