'In 1988, my great uncle settled with the state of New Jersey for north of 12 million dollars. Here's what happened after.'
“I’m telling Dad on you,”
“I—” I said, accidentally shaking the fish so its body kind of wiggled. “I just found it like this, I swear.”“It makes me think about how your father and uncle might have seen their younger selves in you and your brother.”We were in my great uncle’s sprawling, discombobulated garden—with its oaks, tomato plants, an antique tractor, cucumbers, chicken wire, wildflowers—in a town forgettable as Franklinville.
“Please don’t tell, not yet,” I said, still holding the fish, its whiskers dangling. Wind trickled through the hickory, jostling the barbed leaves. “You have to help me.”A small, useful rage came over me. I moved closer to him, raising the fish even higher. “If you don’t help me, I’m going to hit you with it.”killed it,” I added, my confidence growing.
He bought a three-foot Pequod encased in glass. A four-foot Titanic. He bought an extra fridge for the basement and then cases of Dom Perignon to fill it. A black 1941 Oldsmobile. A thirty-something Model T rigged to be a roadster, raccoon tail tied to the antenna. A '66 Lincoln convertible like the one Kennedy was shot in. A new house, a big deck, a pole barn in the back for the farming equipment he’d never use.
And then, on the high shelf: a crystal figurine of the Emerald City I didn’t know would eventually be mine.
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