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

snug against my skin, and stood up on the bare wooden floorboards without a single tremor.

The bell above the door at Canton Pharmacy chimed as I walked in at two o’clock. Mr. Lee, the pharmacist who had filled my late husband’s prescriptions for twenty years, looked up from behind his high counter.

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