“Where are you? My kids are hungry, and the table still isn’t cleared!” my sister demanded on my birthday, as if cooking, cleaning, and caring for her children were automatically my responsibility. – Welcome

debt if I stayed in the program.

That scared me.

It still scared me less than giving someone else control over whether I could attend.

Dad did not speak to me for almost two weeks.

Then he asked me to come to his office.

I went because I wanted one conversation where nobody could later claim I had disappeared.

He began with:

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