Thank you so very much for asking for this prompt and this verse. I've had this idea in my head for a long time. Because, like you, I've "gone back" and found my childhood home transformed, my neighborhood changed from something ordinary to something else, and yet some things weren't changed - like the azaleas and rhododendrons and Andromeda bushes.

Enough to be hauntingly familiar.

And why am I not surprised you've eaten at The City Line, too!

Hugs the little bear, so happy she loved her story.