So, at a minimum, we are planning on the wife and kids remaining in the Midwest. The separation is terrible, but other people have done it. Many people leave their families in foreign countries to work in the tourism trade here in the summer. He now is on the waiting list for Section 8 housing. That was a very hard day to realize that I put myself and family into such a nightmare of a situation.
People have their piece of the Lower Cape, and that isn t going to change.
I think we could have had an OK life. I will hate to turn in my new Massachusetts driver s license and plates. As I read this last line, I was taken by the sheer absurdity of the situation. In reality, this is not a profound personal tragedy. This motivated and dignified man will return to the Midwest or find another coastal treasure to protect.