Ms. F walked into my Open House, took one look, and frowned. Her kids had been asking her for years to move closer to family — a recent knee surgery finally brought them through the door. They were ready to update anything she needed. All she had to do was say yes. She wasn't ready to give it. Her dining table wouldn't fit. I could've treated that as a furniture problem. Instead, I asked to see the table myself — and spent an afternoon hearing its story: decades of birthdays,