I Came Home From Teaching All Day to Find a Lock on My Own Pantry

from a move twenty-five years ago. Inside were documents, deeds, a black notebook with frayed corners that had been my mother’s, and at the bottom, a business card.

Patrick Nolan, attorney at law. Family and estate law.

Patrick had been my student in third grade, over thirty years ago. A skinny serious child who read during recess and whose mother had continue reading …