My Parents Refused to Help Me Through College but Funded My Sister Until Years Later at Her Wedding Everything Changed

she used when I had said something she found both inconvenient and beneath response, and she said that college mattered for Ellie. For her. Said it that plainly, with the certainty of someone who does not understand or does not care that the sentence they have just said out loud is the cruelest possible version of the truth.

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