Deciding to take a closer look, she stopped and walked up the familiar driveway. With a sense of bittersweet curiosity, she peered through the windows into the living room. To her surprise, everything seemed just as she remembered it from before.
It struck her that, after all this time, neither her mother nor Uncle Joey had started clearing out his belongings. The house was still filled with the same old furniture and personal items, untouched and unchanged even after two years had passed.