Six Vintage Dresses Left in a Cedar Trunk on Oak Street

“You will pay it back to the five of us over ten years, with a standard bank interest rate. Beatrice can write up the terms tonight.”

“You would do that?” she asked. “After I tried to take the silver? After I helped Richard?”

“You are our sister,” I said simply. “Mother did not leave us six dresses so we could tear each other apart over the scraps.”

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