The gaps were wrong for a schedule and right for a person.

There are clusters in November and December every single year.

There are clusters in late June.

There is a gap of four months in 2008 and then a single deposit of ninety dollars in the February of 2009, which is more than she ever put in at once before or after.

I telephoned Deloris Pfaff, who is eighty-one and whose family ran the bakery on Stanton Street until 2016, and she told me without having to think about it.

Thanksgiving and Christmas were the two weeks a year the bakery paid double shifts.