The Five-Dollar Lesson

You might say I’m a bit hyper-responsible. My ex-husband often called me, and not always in a joking way, “Super Cop of the World.” For twenty-five years, my desk has featured a Nicole Hollander cartoon about the obligations of those in the First-Born

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Club. In the same vein, when people ask why I never had children, I typically answer, “I’m the oldest daughter of an oldest daughter of an oldest daughter. It had to end!”

So, when recently I was in charg...