“Tell it again, Grandpa! Please tell us!”

The children gathered at their grandfather’s feet as he sat in his rocking chair. He had just finished telling them the tale of the adventures of his youth. They, in disbelief needed to hear it in its entirety once more to truly understand the magnitude of it.

He heaved a great sigh, but with a twinkle in his eye, scooped his youngest granddaughter on his lap and began to tell his tale once more.

“I was still a young chap, barely twenty one years of age. My father had just passed away and my mother was too distraught to be living on her own. I decided to move back into the home of my childhood. It had been a few years since I had stayed there, and I rediscovered many things about my younger self that I had since forgotten.

The spring after my father passed, my mother decided that she wanted to deep clean the house and get rid of anything that we had no need for. She wouldn’t let me touch her various knick knacks downstairs, but as she was too feeble to climb the steep stairs, she allowed me to sort through our things that had been stored in the attic for many a year.

So one fine Saturday afternoon, as I was not working, I decided to climb up into the attic and see what ancient relics I could dig out and discover. Little did I know, I would be discovering something far beyond the capabilities of my mind to grasp… but it would lead me on an adventure, one of the best kinds.

Danger at ever turn, a beautiful woman to guide me on my way, I even fought a little here and there as I went along.

Anyways, I’m getting ahead of myself…I was cleaning up the attic and you would never believe what I had found. It was a beautiful-“

“Kids! It’s time to go!” Their mother called out to them.

A chorus of groans sounded out from among them.

“But Grandpa was just getting to the good stuff.” Whined the little girl still sitting on his lap, crossing her arms in a pout. She had seen him fingering something in his pocket and he had just been about to draw it out when her mother interrupted them. A brief flash of something shiny was all she saw before it was tucked back into the recesses of his big jacket.

“Well, you’ll just have to come back soon to hear it. It’s almost your bed time young lady, so we need to get going.” Her mother picked her up off of his lap and held her in her arms. “Tell Grandpa bye.”

“Goodbye Grandpa.” Came the chorus once more. One by one they filed out to the car, already asking when they could come back again.