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I paid for my parents to fly out and see me for the first time in four years. They stayed at my sister’s house 30 minutes away. I set the table every night for a week. They never came. On their last day, Mom texted: “Maybe next time, sweetie!” I was the bank. Not the daughter. So I shut it down.

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be tricky, sweetheart. Hannah’s place is just more convenient with the little ones. And honestly, your mother doesn’t want to keep packing up and driving back and forth.”

“Packing up?” I asked, my grip tightening on the phone. “Dad, I paid for a rental car so you wouldn’t have to worry about convenience. It’s a thirty-minute drive.”

He sighed, the sound continue reading …

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