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

the inside cover, where the original ownership breakdown was recorded in my mother’s neat, looping handwriting.

Thirty percent to Martha. Thirty percent to Clara. Thirty percent to Beatrice. Ten percent held in trust for the shop’s future maintenance.

I looked at the certified transfer paper lying next to the old book. Clara’s original thirty percent,continue reading …