After his father Marcus died suddenly three years earlier, thirteen-year-old Evan became unusually responsible. Every Saturday, he worked washing dishes at Sal’s diner for sixty dollars a week, telling his mother he was saving for a matte-black bicycle he had admired for months. But even after many paychecks, he never bought it, and whenever she asked how close he was to his goal, he simply smiled and said he was almost the…Continue Reading
