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

the county inspectors.

“I did,” I said. My palms were dry, and I kept them flat on the wood of the witness box, feeling the grain under my fingers.

“How old were you?”

“Nine,” I said. “My brother, Avery, was seven. He was the one they put in the second car, the black four-door sedan with the county seal on the driver’s side.”

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