pride.
“You know what’s controversial, Leo?” he said.
“What?” I asked.
Silas’s eyes held mine.
“People don’t want to admit how close they are to me.”
That hit me like a punch I didn’t see coming.
Silas kept going.
“Most folks got one medical bill, one layoff, one divorce, one bad week away from sleeping in their car,” he said. “But instead of facing that,continue reading …