My Childhood Sweetheart Asked Me to Sign a Special Folder in Room Four Hundred Seven

quiet review for billing anomalies since the end of August.”

“Why was he not suspended?” I asked.

“Because we did not have proof of direct collusion,” Diane said, her hand resting on her telephone. “We only had discrepancies in his private billing records.”

“So there was never any cancer,” I said, the words heavy and dry in my throat.