My parents abandoned me during my hardest battle—then appeared at graduation demanding credit, until the dean announced the valedictorian and their faces changed instantly
and eighty thousand dollars in her college fund, and we are not wiping out her future over this.”
I waited for my mother to remind him that I was his daughter too. I even waited for Megan to object, but she remained focused on her phone while Karen worried about what their neighbors might think if our family accepted financial assistance.
