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a gift to your parents.”
I blinked.
“Contribute how much?”
“Well, the whole thing comes to about twelve thousand,” my mother said. “We thought if you could cover it as a thank you for everything we have done for you over the years, it would be a lovely gesture.”
Twelve thousand.
Four months of my rent.
A quarter of my take-home pay.
The down payment I’d been continue reading …
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