My Grandma Never Let Anyone Open the Old Handbag She Kept Hidden in Her Closet—When I Finally Looked Inside, I Screamed in Shock

minute.”

Something in the way he said it made my skin tighten.

“No,” I said. “She asked me.”

“Emily.”

“She asked me, Uncle Robert.”

Aunt Susan touched Robert’s arm. Aunt Linda looked at the floor. Cousin Megan whispered something to Jake that I couldn’t hear.

Envelopes. Twelve.

“I’ll be fifteen minutes,” I said, and I was already moving.

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