Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

about wanting everything from the study, including any other old papers.”

“Why shouldn’t he have them, she asked, her voice rising in the quiet bakery.”

“They are just old scraps of paper.”

“They do not mean anything to us.”

“They mean everything if grandfather did not write those contest cards, I said, keeping my voice down so the counter girl would not continue reading …