My Parents Took the $22,000 Hawaii Trip I Paid For

trusts you because you buy things.”

There it was.

Not her deepest fear.

Her easiest insult.

I leaned against my car door and looked out through the garage opening toward the wet Chicago street beyond it.

“No,” I said. “She trusts me because when I say I’ll be somewhere, I show up.”

Megan was quiet.

Then she said, “You think you’re so much better than us.”

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