Too bad the author didn't take the time to learn about Anna when she was alive. I'm sure it would have been priceless to Anna to have a friendly neighbor. Inste

Too bad the author didn't take the time to learn about Anna when she was alive. I'm sure it would have been priceless to Anna to have a friendly neighbor. Instead the author felt guilty from the gentrification after the new house went up and used that emotion to write a story for their career. That was unfair to the author. I can sympathize with the author and with Anna having watched my own family be priced out of their neighborhoods and the homes their parents built demolished. These homes weren't even derelict; just not large enough for the much richer buyers. Now I'm trying to get a home of my own and can't afford a house at 1/5th the lands value. This is a constant motion, one generation moves into a new area for cheap and spends a lifetime cultivating it. The generation after the next then moves into that same neighborhood at very high cost as demand increases when the current home owners die. I'm not going anywhere with this. Gentrification is bad and good, progress is bad and good.