One Carpenter Spent His Savings to Keep Five Young Siblings in His Woodshop

to take them by noon on Friday.”

“Three separate homes,” I said.

“One in Mercer County,” she said. “Two in Logan.”

I looked down at the neat rows of numbers on the hardware store receipts. I had spent twelve thousand dollars on filing fees and every spare dollar on lumber, believing that a complete ledger would prove I was ready. Now the paper just looked continue reading …