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The Yellow Door...
(Part 4) Erased Truth

Lucinda asked, wondering if the stories her grandmother was telling were true or fiction, me..? what did I do? What problem did I cause? Grandma started saying, My mother had been telling me these truths since my childhood. Hence the pendle hill area felt to me as a place of fear and curse. I never spoke about that area to anyone in our family after that. I hid his stories and my grandmother in my mind only as my memories. Years passed again. Your birth was a festival for us. But your father died when you were 17 years old. That death that disrupted our family was just the beginning of the tragedies. Your father's death was at Downham, north of the Pendle hill area. Your father, who went for business, died there. We had to go there. Even if there was a little fear, I...