by the family he’d taken them from.
The reporter found that detail a lot more interesting than the furniture.
The article ran two days after the open house, right alongside the glowing photos Marcus had been so proud of. The headline focused on his restoration work. The third paragraph focused on where his “rustic charm” had actually come from.
Marcus called me screaming that I’d ruined his reputation. I told him, calmly, that I hadn’t said a single untrue word — I’d simply stopped covering for him.
Dad’s tools still hang
