When I Told Grandma Ruth My College Fund Was Only $214 She Asked What Channel My Mom Watches at Six

The attorney’s name at the bottom was Patricia Overton, of a firm I did not recognize but whose address I recognized as being in a part of the city where serious lawyers worked.

The second was a declaration my grandmother had drafted herself. Fourteen pages. It detailed the establishment of the fund at my birth, every deposit made over eighteen years,continue reading …