Four Balloon Options Offered by Family Members for New Year Planning

lease by the fifteenth.”

“And Evelyn is waiting for her five thousand dollars from that place in town,” Arlene said, her voice hard. “They are both running out of time.”

I opened the blue folder, my eyes tracing the clean, unhurried lines of my own handwriting on the draft statement Arlene had prepared.

“I am not going to hide anymore, Arlene, and I am continue reading …