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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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before my family did.

“You’re pale,” he said after class one rainy Thursday while students packed up around us. “And you’ve been standing at the back for three weeks.”

“I’m fine.”

He took off his glasses. “Celestine, that is not an answer. That is a reflex.”

So I told him enough. Not all of it. Just that my scoliosis had progressed and that I had an orthopedic continue reading …

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