My Mother Tried To Force Me To Give My House To My Sister Because I Was Single

spotted a logical inefficiency. “Sarah’s kids are practically sleeping on top of each other over there.” I would deflect with a joke about my hobbies, about my plans for the future, about how quiet I liked it. She would smile and let it go. Until the next dinner, when she would say the same thing in a slightly different arrangement of words.

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