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

his index finger. “Sixty-two thousand dollars, right to the medical escrow.”

I did not move from the chair.

“That is almost the entire balance of my grandmother’s legacy, Ben,” I said.

“It is for my life, kid,” he said, his voice dropping into a soft, wounded whisper. “We do not have time to dither over pennies when my lungs are filling up.”

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