I Let My Mother Think She’d Secured My Sister’s Wedding

Nothing close.

But there are moments when somebody finally walks one inch out of their own shadow, and you notice.

I opened the first envelope. Counted. All there.

Opened the second. Two hundred and twenty.

“Why extra ten?” I asked.

She rubbed under one eye. “For a crepe.”

That almost got a smile out of me. Almost.

I put both envelopes in my drawer.

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