One sheet torn off a yellow legal tablet. Dated the ninth of November. Four days before he went in to see Don Jensen.
I’m going to set it down here exactly the way he wrote it.
Wade. I am no hand at this so I will say it plain.
The place is not clear. I borrowed on it in 2012 for the pivot. And again when your mother was sick. And again after the water in 2019. It is three hundred eighty-eight thousand dollars. The payment is thirty-eight thousand a year, and this place has not made thirty-eight thousand clear in six years. I have been paying the bank with the bank’s money. I never told you boys. I was ashamed.
If I leave it to you, you will keep it. I know you. You will pay that bank until you are as old as I am, and Theresa will do without, same as your mother did, and you will never say a word. I will not do that to you.
