Good doesn't stop

Lois Rae Carlson

The Godfreys' house was the best place on the block to play.

Forest and Brighten always had so many projects going and were happy to have friends help out. In summer they had a garden with huge sunflowers; in the winter they turned their yard into an ice-skating rink.

Once after some workers had taken out a huge tree, the whole neighborhood went over to dig down to China from the hole the tree left. In their basement Forest was building his version of the ocean liner Queen Mary. He used an old wooden ironing board for the bottom of the boat, and it even floated when they took it to the lake.

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