She says she wants to be the person in the room when someone gets the good news.
Ava is studying social work, which surprised no one who has ever met Ava.
I paid off my little rented house and I bought the building the clinic was in, not to get rich off it, but so I could stop the landlord from tripling the rent on a place that serves people who are one overdue notice away from where I used to be.
I set up a fund, too, with Mr. Pennington’s help.
We didn’t name it after Samuel.
He would have hated that.
We named it The Awning, and nobody who receives from it ever learns where it came from, because that was always the point.
It does one thing.
It finds people the world has stopped counting, and it counts them.
A single mother three semesters from a degree she can’t afford to finish.
