How a Five Million Dollar Bet Led to an Unexpected Marriage in Queens

in Boston, and she spent her winters heating bricks on the kitchen stove to wrap in flannel towels for my bed.”

“If the radiator froze, we lived in the kitchen for a week,” he said.

I smiled, the image of a young, cold Taylor King sleeping with hot bricks warming something small and long-forgotten inside me.

“My grandmother did that continue reading …