every month, money left my account before sunrise.
Usually $1,400.
Sometimes $2,000.
There was always another emergency.
A furnace.
Dad’s truck transmission.
A roof after a hailstorm.
I paid for that roof and felt proud.
A daughter keeping rain off her father’s head from three states away.
Then Danny needed a used Honda because his job required a car.
Christmas money came on top.
So did birthdays and Easter.
On my side of the ledger, the money looked like night differential and holiday pay.
Six straight Christmases at
