How Two Extra Jobs and Forty Thousand Dollars Bought the Old Miller Farm
The dining room went completely silent except for the quiet hum of the new refrigerator in the kitchen.
Kim stopped chewing her roll and sat back in her chair, her eyes fixed on the plastic sleeve of diner receipts.
“I worked ninety-six weekend shifts at Patty’s diner,” I said.
“And six hundred and forty hours of overtime at the hospital billing desk.”
Nate leaned his forearms flat on the edge of the table.
“I took every late-night service call from one county line to the other,” Nate said.
“Fixing combine feeder chains in freezing rain at two in the morning for three hundred dollars cash.”
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