I’m sorry it’s taken me over a year to come introduce myself. I’m Chester Duncan, Bryce’s grandfather.
And you, of course, are Julianna Baker.He stuck out his hand,
so I took off my work glove and watched my hand completely disappear inside his as we shook.
“Nice to meet you, Mr. Duncan,” I said, thinking that this man was way bigger than he looked from the sitting-room window.
Then the strangest thing happened. He pulled his own work gloves and a pair of clippers from a back pocket and said,
“Are you pruning all of these to the same height?”
“Oh,” I said. “Well, yes. That is what I was thinking. Although now I don’t know.
Do you think it would look better to just take them out?”
He shook his head and said, “They’re Australian tea shrubs. They’ll prune up nicely.”
And with that, he put on his gloves and started clipping.
At first I didn’t know what to say to this man. It was very strange to be getting his help,
but from the way he was acting, it was as though I shouldn’t have thought a thing of it.
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