Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

foot constantly tapping against the leg of the coffee table.

She was counting a stack of twenty-dollar bills, laying them out in rows of five on the oak surface.

“I need three hundred dollars, Clara,” I said.

Clara did not stop counting. “We do not have three hundred dollars, Martha.”

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