After Six Years of Payments, My Dad Laughed and Said There Was No Account

and Jenna closed on a three-bedroom property in the new subdivision off Miller Road. Two hundred and sixty thousand dollars, with a fifty-two thousand dollar down payment. At Sunday dinner, my father stood up and clapped Travis on the shoulder with the proud expansiveness of a man celebrating his own success. That’s my boy. A real homeowner.

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