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

for saving myself.

By Christmas, my parents were moving.

Not into poverty.

Not into the street.

Into a smaller apartment fifteen minutes from Tyler and Brooke.

My mother called it “temporary” for the first three weeks.

My father called it “humiliating.”

I called it affordable.

Megan did not offer them a room.

That surprised no one except my mother.

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