At The Closing Table

At the closing table, everyone was smiling—except him.

The papers were signed, keys slid across the polished surface, and polite congratulations filled the room. But he kept glancing at his phone, waiting. Just before we stood up, a notification finally appeared. It wasn’t from the lender or the movers. It was a photo from his next-door neighbor at the old house: a handwritten note taped to the door that read, “Thank you for the snow shoveling, the late-night laughs, and being family when ours was far away.” Under it sat a small potted plant.

He swallowed hard. That house had been his first stop after a cross-country move, a place where he knew no one and felt invisible. Over time, it became the place where borrowed tools turned into shared dinners, where hellos became friendships. Selling it made sense—new job, new season, better fit—but leaving meant more than changing addresses. It meant closing a chapter he didn’t realize had shaped him so deeply.

When he walked into his new home later that day, he placed the plant on the kitchen counter before unpacking anything else. “This one comes with us,” he said quietly.

Homes don’t just hold our lives—they connect us to people who change us, and those connections are what truly move with us.

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At The Closing Table