remember.
People had long ago decided he simply was not worth the effort.
Kylie understood the impulse. She did not blame her neighbors for avoiding him. She had felt the sting of his sharpness herself more than once, and there were days when walking past his house was simply easier than stopping.
But she had also seen something the others had not.
It happened in the middle of winter, on a morning when she was already running late for her shift at the diner.
She spotted Arthur flat on his
