I Canceled the Money While They Were Still Watching the Ball Drop

I donated both.

Melissa moved into a smaller place in April. She got a job at a dental office in Hilliard and, according to Kelly, has kept it. We don’t talk much. Sometimes on birthdays. Once, she texted me a photo of a tomato plant she’d managed not to kill. That was our whole conversation for six weeks.

My parents still tell people I abandoned the continue reading …