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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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been eating ramen.

“What happened?” she asked.

“They’re helping,” I whispered.

Jordan’s face changed in a way I did not understand then.

She looked relieved for me.

But not surprised by them.

That should have warned me.

Jordan Matthews was not my roommate because we were alike. She was loud where I was careful, blunt where I was polished, and allergic to continue reading …

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