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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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that had already decided what side it was on. “You’re awake. This is real.”

My name is Celestine Marie Lewis, and I was twenty-one years old when my parents decided the safest time to rob me was while a surgeon had my spine open.

I was a junior at a state university on the Peninsula, studying political science with a pre-law concentration and maintaining continue reading …

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