The oldest was a young man of fifteen soon to be f******n. The youngest was 10. We were cleaning up the bits of remaining debris and doing some final ...its of grading as we did. The family was given the keys and the boys all headed out to the tree in the yard to play. We found a heavy rope earlier and tied it high in the tree for a swing. I tied a tire to it and the k**s were loving it.I stopped to watch them and as I did the mom came out and hugged us thanking us for all our work. The group. It had been a long road back from those darkest days. A road that he knew he would travel the rest of his life. A long, winding, lonely road. And she had become his only bit of sunshine. The shy, little dove in the back of the class that barely spoke a word. But wow, when you finally got her talking, damn, but the girl was smart. And funny. And pretty. And not for the likes of someone like him, he reminded himself. He was turning to go when the door finally opened. Well, more like a crack. He wasn’t sure how much he saw was real. Certainly, the walk through spear-grass could not have lasted at all as long as it seemed to. He had never seen more than a few tufts together. Here, they were standing together, and they went on and on. There didn’t seem to be any plants but those. An old man led him into a hut, and he collapsed on the bed of grass stems.For a time he couldn’t measure, he lay there. The old man gave him something bitter to drink, and he dropped back to sleep. A young. ” I then showed her the half bath just off the kitchen and told her “after that you can clean the toilet, wipe down the floor and clean the vanity. All of that should only take you about 30 minutes or so. Does $30 sound acceptable?” She smiled and responds, “Sure does!”. I get her the cleaning materials and she jumps right into cleaning the kitchen.It takes her no more than 30 minutes to finish both the kitchen and the bathroom. She asks me if everything looks ok. I assure her it does and hand.