Uncle Robert Insisted Grandma Was Confused, Until Four Sheets of Paper Changed Everything in Greenville

Martha looked at the water pitcher and didn’t pour from it.

“Say whatever you came here to say,” I said.

“You came home late,” the lawyer said.

“You came home late and you came home loud.

You changed the lock on a woman who couldn’t remember her own birthday.”

“She remembered my birthday,” I said.

“She called me every year I served, at whatever hour the time difference gave her.”

The lawyer glanced over at Robert.