Love her writing!
The old court building stands on a corner in Victorian elegance. Although relatively small for a civic building, from outside it is rather grand. Once, it must have been modern. No doubt, it was there were complaints in 1882 when it was built in the midst of the surrounding Georgian splendour.
I started working there in 1989, an incomer with no connection – or so I thought – to the town or county. I was startled to discover many later that one of my great-grandfathers had been born maybe a hundred yards away and the office was probably being built just as he was setting out into the wide world beyond his little country town.
I met my husband in that office and worked there on and off for ten years.
On hot summer days, diagonal shafts of sun could just about reach through the railings on the pavement…
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Literary Arts by K.G. Petrone 
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