Six Pairs of Thick Gray Socks Saved My White House on Elm Street

ago.

I turned and walked back toward the grocery store to call another taxi, my boots crunching softly on the frozen grass.

When I got back to Elm Street, the kitchen was dark. The refrigerator was humming its low, steady song in the corner, and the draft under the back door was blowing a thin line of cold air across the linoleum.

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