Six Vintage Dresses Left in a Cedar Trunk on Oak Street

yellowed pages. Beatrice turned the pages slowly, her eyes scanning the neat columns of figures. She stopped on a page dated August twelfth, her finger pausing over a single line.

“Martha,” she said, her voice dropping even lower.

I leaned in close. The entry was written in our mother’s precise, elegant handwriting, listing the sale of the farm.

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