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Twenty Dollars and a Teddy Bear

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It started with twenty dollars.

I keep a small envelope of cash in the kitchen drawer, behind the takeout menus, the way my mother always did. Emergency money, parking money, the kind of cash you hand a kid for the ice cream truck. One Thursday I went to pull out a bill and counted forty dollars where I was sure I'd left sixty. I told myself I'd miscounted. I'm tired all the time now, with the baby and the new job. People miscount.

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