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At Brunch My Mother Called Me Useless Until I Canceled Twelve Thousand Dollars And Everything Changed

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a drawing of me as a superhero, cape and stethoscope. I hung it in my locker.

In January I started therapy, using some of the money I had not spent on a resort I had never wanted to visit. My therapist explained it clearly: the system my family had built measured worth by income and status, and in that system I would always lose. It was not a fair game.continue reading …

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