I added the numbers from my Saturday shifts in Hastings.

We had skipped every summer vacation and bought three-dollar jeans at church rummage sales just to build this fund.

Every extra dollar had gone straight into the savings account, no exceptions.

I typed the final sums into a spreadsheet and hit enter.

The screen showed the combined total of all our accounts.

We had saved exactly seventy-one thousand four hundred dollars.

Luke stared at the bright screen without blinking.