I was getting the urge to travel again, so when Wilma made her yearly pilgrimage to Hagerstown, and then to visit Vivian, I was delighted to hear that she wanted to take me back with her to Illinois to see her new “houses”. I remember the small apartment she used to live in, how much fun it was to look out the sliding glass doors into the parking lot, watch the other tenants as they came and went. When we got to her house, she informed me that the entire complex was now hers.
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Wilma’s house is brighter; the décor is contemporary instead of Traditional like the old apartment. There is lots of traffic going past on Piatt St.
There was lots of work to do since she closed on the other side just before coming to Hagerstown. She calls the second house “Ivory Tower” after the name of the paint that she used throughout the house. Cousin Jean came over and helped with the finishing touches of cleaning, getting ready to show the house for rental purposes.
I can’t stay long, I hear Cousin Sue is building a house in South Dakota and I need to go there to help her in any way that I can.
~Wilma Castang
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