Chapter 24

We spent the next two weeks focusing on setting up the lab and making sure that the entire house was put in order.  Like me, Megan had an aversion to clutter.  We didn’t mind if a room was either empty or sparsely furnished as long as it was clean and not riddled with dust.  So, while we shopped, lugged from the store as well as the old house, and organized, the cleaning crew was kept busy going from room to room.

By the time we were finished and satisfied with the way things were looking, I felt exhausted on both a physical and emotional level.  

As odd as it seemed, setting up the new lab made me think of Peter.  Perhaps it was because I was preparing to do research on the very thing that took him from me.  I wondered if he’d made any progress with his research in Africa.  It would have proven handy to be able to know his findings and share in his progress.  Instead, I was starting from scratch.

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