Injured Son Crawls Seven Blocks Home Missing a Shoe—Then Grandpa Calls Before Anyone Should Know He Escaped
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Chapter 23 - CARTER BUILDING SUPPLYThe business nearly failed.
Not because Eli exposed it.
Because the underlying problems already existed.
The bank reduced the line.
A minority owner forced governance changes.
Mark and Charles lost management control.
Blue Ridge payments stopped.
One store closed.
Forty-six employees remained across the other locations.
Eventually a larger regional supplier bought a controlling interest.
The Carter name came off the signs.
I drove past the first changed sign with Eli.
He was sixteen.
HOMESTEAD BUILDING SUPPLY
He stared.
“Grandpa must hate that.”
“Yes.”
“Do you?”
I thought.
“No.”
“What if Mom were alive?”
Jenna.
“She’d say their new logo is ugly.”
Eli laughed.
May you like
He was right.
The logo was terrible.
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Chapter 24 - RECOVERYEli’s ribs healed in about two months.
Chapter 25 - DENISE’S LETTERA year later, Eli agreed to receive one letter from Denise.
Chapter 26 - THE MAILBOXThree years after Eli crawled home, a summer storm finally finished the crooked mailbox.
Chapter 27 - The EndThree years and two months after I found Eli beside that mailbox, I drove him to college.
