At My Father’s Funeral, My Brother Announced He Was Selling the House

office was on the fourth floor of a brick building in downtown Philadelphia, with brass nameplates and Persian rugs and the faint smell of old paper. He was older than I expected, late sixties, wire-rim glasses, white hair, but his eyes were sharp when he shook my hand.

“Miss Henderson,” he said. “I was hoping you’d call.”

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