Poppy and the Diamond Ring
Sometimes people ask whether finding Evelyn changed our lives because she was wealthy.
I understand the question.
There was a new roof over my kitchen, after all, and some worries no longer woke me in the middle of the night.
But I think about a different morning.
Evelyn had come over early to help Poppy make a family tree for school.
They sat at the table with photographs spread everywhere, tracing branches with colored pencils.
The tree was complicated.