My own daughter left me a breezy little voicemail saying, “Mom, you don’t need to come this summer. Paul thinks it’s better if we keep the lake house for our family,” as if the cedar walls, the sage green door, the dock, the porch swing, and every nail in that place hadn’t been paid for with my money

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I ladled the jam into jars and sealed the lids. Tomorrow, I would mail one to each of the women with a note.

“You are my favorite place,” the note would say.

Because they were. Those ordinary, underappreciated women who stayed kind without being rewarded.

They were the place I had been looking for all along. Not a lake house or a deed, but a table long enough for everyone and a door that stayed open.

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