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After I spent $77,000 covering my brother’s wedding, he deliberately sent me to the wrong city in Italy as a joke. I landed alone in Naples while the real celebration was happening in Florence. The next day, he texted, “LOL, I just didn’t want to invite you,” and my mother piled on by saying the whole mess was somehow my fault. I didn’t argue. I didn’t beg. I smiled, came home, and had a four-foot gift delivered straight to her door. When she saw it, she broke down crying and called me asking, “Can I please pay you back?”

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Then: “Then why are you in Naples?”

“Because Ethan sent me here.”

Another pause. Smaller. Colder.

“Well,” she said, “maybe check more carefully next time.”

“Mom, he texted me that he did it on purpose.”

“You always make everything drama,” she snapped. “Honestly, Alyssa, the attention-seeking never ends with you.”

Then she hung up.

I checked into the hotel continue reading …

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