Chapter 059 – The File Cabinet
Chapter 59 - Chapter 059 – The File Cabinet
I bought a four-drawer file cabinet.
Gray metal.
Ugly.
Beautiful.
Drawer one: House.
Drawer two: Medical.
Drawer three: Children.
Drawer four: Letters I Might Need When I Forget I Am Not Crazy.
Naomi approved.
Mr. Lawson approved too, though he said the fourth label lacked legal elegance.
“I am not aiming for elegance,” I told him.
That cabinet became my second spine.
Every email, voicemail transcript, court order, bank statement, social work note, and neighbor number had a place.
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For decades, I had kept recipes, school forms, and birthday cards for everyone else.
Now I kept records for myself.
