Wes Coffey
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Podcast Appearances
63 years.
Every single year.
He'd done the last one in October of 2021, five months before he died.
Nobody had done one in 2022, or 2023, or 2024, or... And this is the part that made me put my head down on the table and actually start crying.
Or in 2025, because nobody had told me.
The notebook explained why.
Papa wrote it in the second person, addressing me directly.
He said he decided he wasn't going to tell me.
He said the agreement was old and he wasn't sure it was real, and he didn't want me to carry it if it wasn't.
He said he'd thought about it for a long time before he died, and he decided to leave the land to me and let the chain break.
The last thing he wrote in the notebook was this, and I'm going to quote it as close as I can remember.
If it comes for you, I am sorry.
I should have told you.
If it comes for you, get off the land and never come back.
Salt the door and windows and get out.
Don't come back for anything.
Not the guns.
Not the cabin.
Not the land.
Let it have the hollow.