The Account Under the Bed

I did not want anything that had been bought with that money, and keeping it would have felt like keeping a piece of him in the house.

Money is never only money, I had learned that much the hard way.

It carries the fingerprints of how it was got.

I did not want to raise my daughter inside walls that had been paid for by the thing that had nearly swallowed her uncle, and so I let it all go with a lightness that surprised the lawyers and did not surprise me at all.

You cannot build a clean life on a dirty foundation.