That is the thing.

Not the running.

That she had started planning.

And the reason that drug was in our house was a manufacturer assistance program with an income ceiling, and the re-application was due on the fourteenth of February, and I had been doing the arithmetic on that re-application for six weeks and the arithmetic did not work, because my hours had been increased in the summer and I was going to be about four thousand dollars over the ceiling for the coming year.

Four thousand dollars over, on a nineteen-forty an hour job, meant thirty-six thousand dollars a year of drug that I did not have.