They Laughed At Me In Court Until The Judge Learned Who I Really Was

in the doorway leaning on her cane before I had finished computing the total.

“You found them,” she said.

“Why are you paying them?”

“Because it keeps them away.” She said it with the practicality of someone explaining a business expense. “If I cut them off, they arrive with a new emergency every week. This costs less.”

“It’s blackmail.”

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