MY SISTER ANNOUNCED SHE WAS PREGNANT

steam had stopped coming off it some time ago.

“The Vanguard account,” I said, “is about four hundred thousand dollars.”

She nodded once. “I don’t need it.”

“She wanted you to have it.”

“I know.”

“Then you’ll have it.”

She looked up. Her eyes were wet but she had not actually cried; she was the kind of woman who could hold tears in the corner of her eye continue reading …