Eighteen Years After Ray Abandoned Him on a Dirt Road, Thomas Found His Mother’s Letter

You could take the roofing yard, the trucks, his house.

A judge would hear you out.”

Diane folded her hands.

“I don’t want the man’s house.”

Vance turned to me.

“Then give me a number.”

“Thirty-eight thousand four hundred dollars, exactly,” I said.

Vance wrote it down.