Chapter 18

I racked my brains all day yesterday trying to figure out how to pay off the rest of the deli refurbishing, plus our rent. Elise suggested she should just go to the ATM and withdraw from our parents' account, but I strongly protested the idea.

"We're not gonna depend on our parents' help, remember?" I said. "We have to make it on our own."

Karmen and I realized we were going to have to do this a different way to make our entrance into the business world.

I figured we could just create flyers and put them in every mailbox in our neighborhood. All we needed was some cool description and graphic art to get us started. I did some math, and it would cost us at least a couple hundred bucks to make enough flyers for the whole block alone. But we had no choice.