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The form was sitting right on top of the stack.It was a thin white sheet with Bobby Whitt\u2019s name typed in the upper corner and my father\u2019s name typed underneath it. Halfway down, in a little box, was one word and one number.Rents. $26,000.I read it sitting in my car in the gravel lot behind the tax preparer\u2019s office, with the engine off and the manila folder propped open against the steering wheel. My sister Sherry had asked me to drop Daddy\u2019s tax papers off for her that morning because her husband, Roger, had a follow-up with his heart doctor.Underneath that form was Daddy\u2019s bank statement from Farmers National Bank. December.<\/p>\n

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