“At 3:15 a.m., I Heard My Son Tell His Wife How to Drain My Account”

shake. “So yes, Mark. I was awake.”

He opened his mouth. Closed it. Opened it again. “Mom, it wasn’t—we weren’t going to—”

“Don’t,” I said. “Don’t lie to me any more than you already have. We’re past that.”

Clare’s car screeched into the driveway. She burst through the front door, her face red and furious. “Eleanor, what did you do? That money was—”

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