Find You First

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Todd listened to the phone ring, waited for a pickup. Two rings, three. You had to give these old folks time to get to the phone. Maybe they had to use a walker, or were in a wheelchair. Even if they had a cordless next to them, half the time it was tucked down into the BarcaLounger and when it started ringing they didn’t know where the hell it was.

“Hello?”

Good, okay. A woman, and she definitely sounded elderly. You had to be careful. Sometimes their grown kids would be visiting the home when Todd made his calls, and if they answered, the best thing to do was just hang up. They’d know something was up from the get-go.

Todd said, “Grandma?”

It was always a shot in the dark. Did she even have grandkids? And if she did, were any of them boys?

The old lady said, “Eddy?”

Bingo.

“Yes, yes, it’s Eddy,” Todd said. “Oh Grandma, I’m so glad I got hold of you.”

“How are you?” she said. “Hang on, hang on, let me turn down Jeopardy! I haven’t heard from you in so long. Your father, he was going to come by the other day and I waited and waited but—”

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