I didn’t agree with Cokie. It wasn’t just rich folks. Mother was soul broke, too.

“I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had b…”

“I've got a business to run. Elmo's bringing over a new bed frame. Dora broke he…”

“They were certainly a pair. Cincinnati in a dead man’s suit, Mother in a dead m…”

“Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours.”