After Six Years of Payments, My Dad Laughed and Said There Was No Account

keep this going another two years, pay off the rest of the business loans.”

I stood behind the kitchen island with my hand flat on the granite and felt my heartbeat in my fingertips.

A voice on the other end said something I couldn’t make out clearly. Then my mother again: “Ruth, relax. She’ll get her money eventually when Dale’s business picks up.”

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