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.

in Santa Fe. Her hair was messy, her clothes wrinkled, and the moment she saw me, she dropped to her knees.

“Rebeca, please!”
“Don’t take away the only thing I have left!”
“How am I supposed to live now?”

Neighbors began to gather and whisper:

“Isn’t her son a wealthy businessman?”
“Then why is she still depending on her ex-daughter-in-law?”

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