Then the older man asked whether Noah had written any music lately.

“A little,” Noah admitted.

“Keep at it,” Walter said.

“People need music too.”

As we left, I realized our town had gained more than a recovered guitar.

It had gained a difficult conversation between a child and an adult who had both made mistakes and had both chosen to correct them.

PART 8

The new equipment process turned out to be neither simple nor fast.