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

and I heard my mother say, her voice low and satisfied, that this solved everything. I smiled in the dark and assumed she meant having me home. I didn’t yet understand what everything referred to. I wouldn’t understand for another three years, and by the time I did, I would have paid seventy-two thousand dollars into a lie.

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