The Room My Father Built
She did not say it in the first four minutes.
In the first four minutes she talked about her health, and about the flat in Maple Heights, and about how none of her friends from the church had called her since the reporting, and about how she had been at that address since 1981, and I listened to all of it.
And then she said: “I don’t have anything, Gwen.”
“I know.”
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