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

The original loan had been thirty-eight thousand four hundred dollars, paid off a month at a time.

Diane stepped back.

“They look like they go together.”

“They do,” I said.

“One is what I owed.

The other is what I was owed.”

She touched the glass over the letter.

“Elaine wrote that on a Tuesday.