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cnu-When I woke up from spinal surgery, I expected to see my parents waiting beside my hospital bed with flowers and tears, but instead a trust attorney stood at the foot of the bed and said, “Celestine, your parents transferred $31,247.83 out of your grandmother’s educational trust while you were under anesthesia” — and when he showed me the text my mother sent at 9:39 a.m., the seven words were colder than the operating room: “Do it now while she can’t check.”

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making it obvious. It was Tyler teaching me a video game where I died every forty seconds and insisting I was “getting less embarrassingly bad.”

It was also nightmares.

In the worst one, I was back on the operating table, awake but unable to move, while my mother stood over me whispering, Do it now while she can’t check. I would wake sweating, hand already continue reading …

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