They did not say anything to one another. Ove merely nodded and the older man gave him a little nod back.
Ove went back into his house and from that time on made sure he kept to his own days.
They never spoke to one another. But one morning when the older man stepped onto his front step, Ove was painting his fence.
And when he was done with that, he also painted the other side of the fence.
The older man didn’t say anything about it, but when Ove went past his kitchen window in the evening they nodded at one another.
And the next day there was a home-baked apple pie on Ove’s front step. Ove had not eaten homemade apple pie since his mother died.
Ove received more letters from the council. They became increasingly threatening in their tone and displeased
that he still hadn’t contacted them about the sale of his property.
In the end he started throwing the letters away without even opening them.
If they wanted his father’s house they could come here and try to take it,
the same way Tom had tried to take that wallet from him all those years ago.
A few mornings later Ove walked past the neighbor’s house and saw the elderly man feeding the birds in the company of a little boy.
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