An Eleven-Month Paper Trail Revealed Where Eighteen Thousand Dollars Had Really Gone

“Your grandpa is right,” I said.

I picked up the last stack of slips and matched them against the printout from the bank.

The total secondary card spending over eleven months came to eighteen thousand seven hundred thirty-one dollars.

Not one dollar of that debt had gone toward our joint checking account or our farm operating expenses.

I gathered the papers, put them in a brown manila folder, and carried the folder into the kitchen.

The kitchen fluorescent light hummed over the counter.