Flying Crows
“He would tell Birdie Carlucci, “Thanks for the memories.”That was the thin reed of justification Randy clung to for making the forty-five-minute drive south to the small town of Kenwood this Saturday afternoon. Fortunately, he only had to use his reasoning on himself, because Melissa and the kids were gone for the day on a special guided tour of the Truman library and residence in Independence. Melissa had volunteered to be one of three parents to help chaperone the twenty kids who were members... of their school’s history club.The county had contracts with five or six privately owned “group residences,” mostly in nearby rural areas, where they placed feeble, destitute elderly people with mild mental problems who could not function by themselves. The program was part of a concerted effort a few years back to get homeless people off the streets.The facility where Birdie Carlucci was living was a huge three-story white frame house that must have begun life at least a hundred years ago as somebody’s mansion.MoreLess
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