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‘They want the ring,’ I tell Harry while I run the professor’s card through. ‘Your mother’s ring? That’s cheeky.’ He’s got a duck confit and I get a fork and take a few bites.The tender meat dissolves in my mouth. I tell Harry about my father and the storage closet and how the athletic director had not wanted to believe me when I told him. ‘Oh Casey.’ He looked around the corner.‘That slumpy man out there?’ ‘Ann has no idea. It was all hushed up.They even threw him a little retirement party with cake.’ I bring my father the check. No coffee refill or dessert menus or squares of chocolate. ‘Let Ann try it on,’ he says. I shake my head. ‘Let your stepmother try on my mother’s ring.’ ‘I haven’t taken it off since she died.’ I didn’t know that was true before I said it. I’m standing just far enough away so neither of them can reach me without a wild lunge. ‘How did you get it?’ ‘She left it to me.’ ‘Probably all she had in the world to give you, the way she lived. Casey,’ he says, trying to sound tender.‘She left us.’ ‘I know, Dad.’ ‘Ann came and saved us.” These people remind me of Ms. Hannigan’s brother and his girlfriend Lily. What slimes...