Twenty seven dollars and sixteen cents. That was the balance of their checkbook. The net worth of two people, accumulated over 20 years of marriage. The number had rattled through his sodden brain for the hours he should have spent sleeping. He had wanted to count sheep, but instead all he could count were the pennies stored in the credit union. Their total wealth could more easily be stored in a ceramic piggy bank than a commercial establishment. Sleep had eluded him. Twenty seven dollars and sixteen cents to be squandered on groceries for the next two weeks, there was none to invest in his love, a woman worth everything in the world to him.
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február - 8 - 2010
