Things I’ve done for money: collected cans for cash, sold chocolate, shoveled sidewalks after a snowstorm. Once I built an amusement park in the backyard and sold tickets. That was the summer Mom quit chemo.
I told jokes for a penny. She bought a hundred, and listened from her bed.
Jane Hertenstein wrote this story.
That last line is a killer. Last lines have to do so much work and this one is heartbreaking.
powerful…great work
Very nice.
Thanks for the heads-up on the tissues!
I like this very much.
Nice work Jane.
all good wishes,
BT