Exactly two days after receiving the divorce papers, I immediately suspended the monthly pension of five hundred thousand pesos that I gave to my former mother-in-law.

the table, the red folder with the divorce papers was answer enough—clearer than any explanation I could give.

Ungrateful?

There was no longer any connection between me and that family.
I swiped away the notifications, didn’t reply, and set my phone aside. My chest felt lighter, filled with a calm I hadn’t experienced in years.

That night, he called.

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