Don, Your Regret Can't Keep Me novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: Gravy
I unfolded the letter in the deli parking lot with the photo face down on my knee.
The handwriting leaned uphill.
Mauro.
The doctor says weeks, so I'm writing what I couldn't say.
The Pisano girl never asked for you.
I told you she did, the night before your wedding, and those were your uncle's words in my mouth.
I believed him, because I was afraid for you.
The Pisano paper came to me from Sergio.
He made the loan himself, the month the mother got sick, at a number no tailor could ever pay.
He brought it to me already rotten.
He said, take the building, give the girl to the boy, and the boy stays alone.
I owed my brother my own chair.
I paid him back with your marriage.
Ask her. She'll tell you.
Papa.
I read it four times.
Then I turned the photo over again and looked at my father laughing.
He'd come home that June and told my mother not to worry about the bills.
A friend from the club was helping.
He never said which friend.
He didn't know he was shaking hands with the man who'd sell him to his own brother.
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