He sold the distributor truck at auction for eleven thousand and the lender took it.

He works now for a paving contractor out of Shelby County, on an hourly rate, running a crew of four, doing the thing he was extremely good at for thirty years before he decided he ought to own it.

Susan said one thing in my kitchen that I have had to carry, and she said it near the end, when she was putting her coat on.

She said: “In 2019 he asked her for fifteen thousand dollars, and if she had given it to him he would have been fine.