Uncle Robert Insisted Grandma Was Confused, Until Four Sheets of Paper Changed Everything in Greenville
“I know that.” She slid out of the booth.
“He had eleven signatures on that page, Diana.
I read it upside down while he was talking to the preacher.”
She left her coffee half full and walked out the side door into the parking lot.
Eleven.
I sat with the plate in the middle of the table until the waitress asked if I wanted it boxed up.
The living room at Birwood Lane was dark when I came downstairs at nine, and I didn’t reach for the lamp.
The sideboard showed four clean rectangles where the tray and the tea set had sat since before I was born.
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