I Came Home After Four Years Working Abroad and Found My Wife Starving in Our Backyard—Then My Mother Asked About the Money I Hadn’t Told Her Was Fake
That bothered me for a second.
Those counters had become symbols of stolen money.
Then I realized:
To the family living there, they were counters.
Fine.
Let them be counters.
We do not need trauma memorials everywhere something bad happened.
Godfrey’s old truck disappeared too.
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