Emma Signed Over Her Kitchen Island to Keep Toby Safe in Massachusetts

have left in your personal savings account?” she asked.

“Four thousand two hundred dollars,” I said.

The number hung in the quiet room, small and fragile against the cost of starting over in Massachusetts.

“That will barely cover the first month’s rent and a security deposit on a small place,” Margaret said.

“It will be enough,” I said.

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