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I\u2019ll tell you how she won his love. She used to chase the boy and when she caught him she would sit on him. This was also how she lost him. It became old hat. They needed to shake it up and were thwarted by tradition. It was what they knew. Not enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The feud resumed easily. It was what they<\/em> knew. But now it had more vigor. Teeth. They enjoyed it more. It had a history. A violation of code. Familial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But at last one of them sold out and moved away. Was replaced with a new family. There was no fight between the houses on one side or the other. The bulldozers were never seen again. The new people didn\u2019t even own one. Absent pride of ownership, the fence stood. The new neighbors had nothing<\/em> in common with the old. They didn\u2019t socialize in any way. They really couldn\u2019t stand one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was a cold war. I watched the neighbors on the opposite ridge bulldoze the property line, each in turn. Each had a bulldozer. They were being sold posts and barbed wire by a dealer in town. Repeatedly. Follow the money. One day the girl on one side married the boy on the other and the war transitioned to a delicate cease-fire. When they were divorced, the bulldozers started back up. It was love. 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