Digging In My Deceased Neighbors Yard Revealed A Hidden Forty Year Secret

I found an envelope in my mailbox with my name written in his careful, familiar handwriting. Inside was a short letter. He wrote that something had been buried in his yard for decades and asked me to look beneath the old apple tree.

Richie offered to come with me, but I chose to go alone. The yard was quiet, the tree unchanged. I began digging without continue reading …