Many who were raised in the 1960s and 1970s learned to tell what kind of evening it would be from the weight of a parent’s footsteps in the hall, and 6 adult habits often trace straight back to that early watchfulness
She was nine years old, standing in the upstairs hallway of a house in 1973, listening. The front door had just opened. She could not yet see her father, but she did not need to. The keys went down on the hall table — softly tonight, not the way they sometimes went down — and ...…