Payable on Death
Thirty-two.
And I had, in a folder nine feet away, a receipt for thirty-two dollars for a safety deposit key replacement.
I want to tell you what I did next, and it is two weeks of my life, and it is the most honest thing in this account about who I had become by the April of 2025.
I telephoned Arthur to ask whether Margaret had rented a second box.
She had not.