Our family had owned the property since 1912.
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It was an old two-story farmhouse surrounded by fields, a weathered barn, and rows of trees planted decades earlier to block the wind.
Beside the house stood a large white propane tank. StudyChemistry
That tank was the only thing keeping the farmhouse heated.
I parked beside the kitchen entrance and hurried inside.
Immediately, I noticed something was missing.
The sound of the furnace.
Our old heating system had always been noisy. Throughout my childhood, its familiar rumbling had echoed through the floorboards.
But that night, the house was silent.
The only sound was the ticking of an old kitchen clock.
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