Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

brother,* the letter read, *I cannot take credit for her word. It would be a lie, and we both know it.*

The letter ended there, unsigned.

My trust in my grandfather’s absolute honesty, the foundation of everything I believed about our family legacy, felt like dry sand slipping through my fingers.

At two in the afternoon, I stood in the drafty lobby of continue reading …