Three Sisters Divided Over a Limestone Bakery Built in Nineteen Sixty-Eight

slip, sliding it across the counter toward me.

“This should help make the decision easier,” she said, her voice dropping into one of her dramatic pauses as she patted her hair.

I looked down at the paper. It was a check made out to Oak Creek Bakery for two thousand dollars, written in Clara’s neat, sloping handwriting.

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