I Took Back Everything They Called “Ours”

Cheryl will cry. Then she’ll bargain. Then your father will get stern. Then Madison will act wounded. Don’t hand them a dollar unless you want to watch it disappear.

One more thing. The diamond ring your grandfather bought me in 1971 is sewn into the hem of the blue quilt in my cedar chest. I don’t trust your mother not to sell it.

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