The knock on the door

Candelaria Silva reports that when she heard the knock on the door of her Dorchester home this morning and opened it up to see two older women, she didn't know what to expect. Turns out the two had grown up in the house and politely asked if they could see what had happened to it:

... In this modest Colonial in Dorchester that my husband and I share alone, their extended family of three sisters, grandpa, mom and dad, and an uncle lived. They shared the one tiny bath. Where our half bath on the first floor is, there was a small screened-in porch in their time. The room that was their shared bedroom is now my study. The sitting area outside the two second floor bedrooms was their grandfather's room and they used to have to tip-toe through it quietly on their way to bed. In the last year of his life, their grandfather's bed was moved to the dining room on the first floor. Their uncle's bedroom was on the third floor. They spoke with fondness of the banister where treats were hidden among the Christmas decorations. ...