Story Time - The Paris Review
Briefly

I was young and newly married to my second husband. We had three and then four children, and pennies slipped through our fingers.
My children... would circle their father as he tried to tie his bow tie, chanting, To the poorhouse, to the poorhouse!
The dinner was at a converted warehouse in Tribeca, a vast high-ceilinged room swathed with gray silk; the effect was a tent of fog.
Read at The Paris Review
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