Picket Fences! Prologue

                   Picket Fences! Prologue                        

Buford Falls was just like any other small town in the South in the 1940's.  The houses were nice, but not by any means the most expensive.  That's Joy Anderson and her best friend Mary Lou Edwards gossiping over the fence that seperates their properties.

Joy lives in this white frame house with a green picket fence.  She''s been living here since she and her husband Larry got married seven years ago.

Joy and Larry both grew up in Buford Falls and got married right after they graduated from high [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].  They have a six year old daughter named Arlene.

Mary Lou lives next door in this red brick house with a white picket fence.  She's been living here for six years.  Mary Lou and her husband Peter have been living in Buford Falls all their lives.  They got married a year after they graduated from high school.

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Mary Lou and Peter have a two year old daughter named Julie.

This house with the brown [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and a brown picket fence belongs to the neighbors on the other side of the Andersons.  

Ben and Betty Jones are the neighbors who live here.  Like Joy and Larry, Betty and Ben got married right after high school.  They have a six year old daughter named Judy and a two year old son named Mike.

There's another white frame house with a white picket fence across the street where neighbors Emily and Sam [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] live.

Emily and Sam moved from Veronaville to Buford Falls a little over a  year ago. They have been married four years and have a son Jimmy who is almost three year's old.

The white frame house next door to the Martin's had been empty since elderly Grace Sawyer died last year.  The neighbors on Shadetree Lane have been waiting and wondering what was to become of the property. Grace was an old [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and had no relatives as far as anyone knew.

Then [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] day the waiting and wondering was over when HE moved in . . .

Joy and Mary Lou hurried across the street to greet their new neighbor.  His name is Rhys Sawyer and he's from Pleasantview.  He says he's Grace's grandson but as far as anyone knows, she didn't have any childern.  Or did she?

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