40,000? How in the world? I couldn’t stop counting the zeros. How in the world did I get that much? I didn’t think the town had that as a whole.
“How?” That was the only thing I could say.
“Well, the town raised about 10,000; half of that came from the Holloways,” which seemed right. They did 5,000, and the town did about the same. Wait… where did the other 30k come from…. I scroll past the 10s and 20s of donations from familiar names around town. Again, this was one of the many reasons living in a small town was wonderful. People really come together to help each other when in desperate need. I scrolled all the way to the bottom. There it was…. Right after Jess started it with 50 bucks. Anonymous 30k, who the hell do I know has that much? It had to be a mistake, no one just had 30k layi
