“Hannah, my experience has been that people cling too hard to the past, or they ignore it, or they try to obliterate it for their own reasons. This was a real thing here in Cooper’s Hollow. Centuries of lives and living. For you, it also represents decades of memories. Yet, despite the fire, you managed to go on with your life and raise your daughter. You have earned this opportunity to blend the past and bring it into the future—not to leave it as ruins. You are taking something fire destroyed and turning it into a home with both a past and a future.”
