Seventy-Three Thousand Dollars in Phony Medical Bills, Paid for a Pregnant Replacement

A blue tab labeled Account Records stuck out from page fourteen.

That first page was a date as well.

March 14, three years earlier.

The second page bore the bank’s letterhead and a pull date stamped in the corner.

The line beneath ACCOUNT HOLDERS read Gregory, Gloria J., and Kessler, Brooke A., joint.

Member since March, three years earlier.

I pressed the folder flat on the hotel bedspread and shifted my thumb so I could take in the whole page at once.

Brooke.