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

the one who did it.”

“But I benefited.”

I stopped walking.

She stopped too.

There it was.

The danger of honest children in dishonest families.

They inherit bills that were never theirs.

“Savannah,” I said, “you were a child. You did not benefit. You were provided for by adults who made choices around you. That is not the same thing.”

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