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“But that sale is several towns away. Believe me, the people there who know about yours will be here afterward. Definitely.” Jillian smiled broadly. “I hung signs all over the place. Remember that movie Field of Dreams? If you build it, they will come. Believe me, if you have a garage sale, they will come!” Jillian started to laugh, a lilting, high-pitched ha ha ha.

Striker failed to find any humor in Jillian’s little joke. “Not only that,” he continued, his expression unchanged, “but Harriet let you throw out too much of my stuff! I’m furious!”

Jillian shook her head. “Oh, Striker,” she said in a placating tone as she walked toward him. “It is so incredibly normal for you to feel that way. People have such a hard time letting go of their things. When the sale is over, you are going to be sooo happy. You are going to feel soooo free. Let’s have a positive attitude, and get ready for your sale!” she said, doing her best to sound perky. “Where’s Harriet?”

“She’s in the house sobbing. She feels the same way.”

32

My life is so messed up, Scott thought. I got married too young. Things were okay for a while, her parents helped us get started, then that witch always wanted more. She wanted to do nothing but shop, lunch with the girls, go on great vacations, join the most expensive country club. Then when Trevor came along she had to have a nanny and send him to private school. For a while I could swing it, then I lost my job. Things were never the same. I tried to keep up and we started fighting.

It was a relief when she met that rich old guy at the gym. When she told me she wanted a divorce, she thought I’d be heartbroken. Huh! What a joke. I just feel sorry that Trevor has a woman like that for a mother. He’s stuck with her for life. I’m stuck dealing with her until Trevor graduates college.

Wouldn’t it just kill her if she found out about the garage sale business? She’d die. Even though she liked the finer things in life, she stopped at those sales every week to get her fix. Sometimes she brought home something decent but mostly it was junk. The amount of money she wasted had driven Scott crazy and he told her as much.