MY PARENTS TOLD GRANDMA THEY WERE TAKING HER TO LUNCH — THREE HOURS LATER A NURSING FACILITY CALLED ME, HER SUITCASE IN THEIR LOBBY AND MY PARENTS GONE

She set the paper down.

“Now I understand the lunch.”

“The garden,” I said.

“The garden,” she agreed. “He needed me institutionalized and declared incompetent before I noticed the money was gone. A woman in a facility, labeled forgetful, isn’t a credible witness against her own son.