Chuin-Wei Yap: ODESSA - Somewhere in the carpet of dust at 17918 State Road 54 lies a driveway, and somewhere in the driveway is a footprint.
The footprint belongs to 3-year-old Daniel Shannon and was left there 28 years ago when the cement was still wet and the big old house was still new.
The house is gone now, torn down Tuesday to make way for an office park.
"I hated to see it go down," said Daniel's mom, Brenda Shannon.
Under the debris, it's hard to tell if anything remains of the little memento. What's left for sure are a wealth of memories, a real estate windfall, and a ghost that never really went away.
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