Midwives
“$25,000. A two and a five and three zeros—five zeros if you’re using a decimal point. Not a whole lot less than it took to buy this whole house not that many years ago. The cost of two years of college for Connie. The cost of my baby’s entire college education, with change, if she decides she wants to go to the University of Vermont.
Until today, Rand and I had never written one check that big. Technically, I guess, I still haven’t. It was Rand who actually tracked down a pen in the kitchen... drawer and wrote out the words “Twenty-five thousand dollars” on that line checks have right below “Pay to the Order of.” Then he scribbled the two and the five and all those zeros.
And that $25,000 is just the beginning. “The retainer to get the clock started,” Stephen Hastings said. “The money to feed the meter.” And now the meter’s running.
I was very disturbed by the amount at first, and I found myself wishing we were eligible for the public defender, but we’re not.MoreLess
Until today, Rand and I had never written one check that big. Technically, I guess, I still haven’t. It was Rand who actually tracked down a pen in the kitchen... drawer and wrote out the words “Twenty-five thousand dollars” on that line checks have right below “Pay to the Order of.” Then he scribbled the two and the five and all those zeros.
And that $25,000 is just the beginning. “The retainer to get the clock started,” Stephen Hastings said. “The money to feed the meter.” And now the meter’s running.
I was very disturbed by the amount at first, and I found myself wishing we were eligible for the public defender, but we’re not.MoreLess
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