I left the St.

Jude admissions office holding a white slip that called for a twelve-hundred-dollar deposit.

By eight thirty the next morning, I was idling in the second lane of the Oak Creek Bank drive-through.

Cold rain beat against the windshield in heavy gusts while I waited for the teller.

I put my driver’s license and a withdrawal slip for fifteen hundred dollars into the clear plastic tube.

The pneumatic system sucked the canister up into the ceiling with a loud thump.