My Son Left Me Alone at the Bakery Until the Business Account Was Suddenly Locked

know that box the way some women know their spice shelf. I’ve kept a running ledger in my head for thirty-six years. There should have been a little over six hundred dollars in it. It was short more than two hundred.

I counted again. Then a third time. The number stayed the number.

I stood there looking down at the bills for a good while.

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