My father slapped a $15,000 rent invoice beside the meatloaf, my mother added 13% monthly interest “like a real landlord,” my sister laughed and recorded me from across the table, and I walked out with one duffel bag and nowhere to go—then a week later my phone lit up at 1:30 a.m. because something had come in the mail and suddenly nobody in that house was laughing anymore.
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