They pay rent now. My father works three days a week at the hardware store in Kitty Hawk. He knows every insurance claim adjuster on the Outer Banks. He helps people after storms. Tells them what their policies cover. For free.
Carolyn got forty thousand dollars of my father’s money back from the man in Costa Rica. Through the FBI case. There are forty other families. Carolyn’s representing six of them now. Pro bono.
Ben got the chemistry job at Manteo High.
The kids love him. He started a forensics club. They solve fake murders in the science lab every Thursday.
Melissa works at the front desk of Pelican Bay Family Resort.
She applied the day after I came to breakfast. They hired her on the spot. She’s good at it. She’s good with people who show up without reservations.
She says she treats every guest the way she wishes she’d treated me.
