Chapter 9 · free to read
Forty-eight households. Twelve envelopes already gone before the meeting started.
Nobody had said her mother's name once. Every single one of them was looking at her anyway.
In a month at that counter he had said eleven words. This was the twelfth to the thirty-fourth.
Thirty-one households signed under hers. Seventeen took the envelope. She did not blame a single one of them out loud.
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