Three Days

"She said she was going to make me things."

"She's going to make you so many things."

"What things?"

"Everything you like," I said. "Once she knows what you like, she'll make all of it. That's how she works." A pause. "You should tell her about the allergies."

"She already asked," Leo said. "She had a list."

I sat with that for a moment. My mother had asked Mrs. Caldwell for the allergy list weeks