My Sister Asked to Borrow $400 “Just Until Friday.” Then Her Daughter Texted Me by Mistake.

agent, and the food money came in from six different soft-hearted relatives, and some of it bought food and some of it bought margaritas, and round and round.

I was a food number. Pam was a food number. We were all just entries on a tablet, and the kids were the bait, and Cheryl was somewhere getting her nails done.

I sat down on a kitchen chair that continue reading …