There is still tenderness and caring in this devious world of ours. There is still time to tell someone just how much you care. It doesn't take much; just a willingness to risk having your heart ripped out. Such a story is "THE OLD HOUSE BY THE GRAVEYARD" by Crenshaw Brooks. This is a love story which in itself defies all odds because the odds are stacked against the young lovers in the beginning. This is a story of two young boys who went to school together and grew up together and never knew each other on a sexual basis because of their perception of being straight. They never knew they themselves had the proclivity to love someone of the same sex. Their relationship was strictly plutonic. They had graduated high school and three years had passed. It was the recession of 2008 and its effect on everybody was being felt. Judson had lost his job and was about to be evicted from his apartment. Roger had lost his job and had moved back home with his parents. Judson was thinking of doing the same. An unexpected inheritance of an old house by the graveyard and $10,000 kept Judson from financial disaster and from asking to move back in with his folks. The old house had been vacant for some time and Judson needed help cleaning it. He called on his friend Roger. Things progressed and Roger moved in with Judson because Judson didn't like the idea of living there by himself. The idea of living beside the old graveyard made Judson nervous. Judson needed a roommate and Roger needed to move out of his parent's house. The story involves building a business empire and the young gay men getting married. They now have the material possessions but each wants more. They want their own biological children. The story touches on how the men solved the acquisition of biological children without the heartache of depending on women who can change their mind at the last minute and decide to keep the children with the backing of the justice system because they are the biological mothers. The two men resolve the problem without going through legal entanglements and lawsuits knowing that women usually get possession of the children and the men usually "pay out the nose" for support and are usually deprived of being in their children's lives because they are gay.