It came with a note that simply read: “To the puppy.”
Slowly, the house took shape. Screw by screw and floorboard by floorboard.
No one saw it, of course, but there was no need for anyone to see it.
A job well done is a reward in its own right, as his father always used to say.
He kept out of the way of his neighbors as much as he could.
He knew they didn’t like him and he saw no reason to give them further ammunition.
The only exception was an elderly man and his wife who lived next door to Ove.
This man was the only one on their whole street who did not wear a tie.
Ove had religiously fed the birds every other day since his father died.
He only forgot to do it one morning. When the following morning he came out to compensate for his omission,
he almost collided headfirst into the older man by the fence under the bird-table.
His neighbor gave him an insulted glance; he had birdseed in his hands.
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