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

I tapped the earliest one.

Then the next one.

Then the one after that.

Beneath every single payment sat a second line.

PROCESSING FEE 12.00.

I put the cup down, the table wobbled, and coffee splashed up against the lid.

Twelve dollars times thirty-nine.

Four hundred sixty-eight dollars just to move money from one account into another.