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“To save the house, we need to buy it back froone into foreclosure sale We had four months to buy it back, but tihty thousand dollars That’s the minimum payment With all the medical debt and other past-due bills, I don’t know It’s probably around seven hundred thousand by now With no insurance, it could be a million by the end of the year We are in a hole we can’t crawl out of, and it just keeps getting deeper Besides that, now that there’s no insuranceto et any of the therapy, he’ll just sit there He’ll never get better”

“We’ll figure it out, Mom Please, don’t cry”

“It’s soto claim bankruptcy, but it’s too late to save the house”

“Justdon’t worry about that Moive up”

“I love you, baby I’m so sorry”

“I love you, too, Mom”

I end the call, andon the savings fro job How can I possibly find that kind of money?

I choke back the tears, trying to focus on what I need to do right nohich is to get as far away frolia as possible

As I start dialing the nu in an open-top sports car just at the corner of the restaurant parking lot where I’ at me

When he cli to askbehind the restaurant with no shoes on, but instead, heconcerned

“You okay?” he starts as I swipe away the tears running down my cheeks Before I can answer, he adds, “Hey, I know you”

I shake my head “I don’t think so”