Across thirty and a half years that ten thousand earned twenty-nine thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars and seventeen cents.

And she made four hundred and twelve deposits.

I counted them.

Twice.

Four hundred and twelve entries between April 1994 and the August of 2024, totalling twenty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars.

An average of fifty-three dollars, about fourteen times a year, for thirty years.

Ten thousand, plus twenty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, plus twenty-nine thousand five hundred and ninety-two and seventeen cents.

Sixty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventeen cents.