They Forgot to Invite Me to Christmas—So I Bought a Mountain. When They Came to Take It, the Deputy Was Already Waiting.

Leave immediately.”

My mother rushed toward the camera, her voice dripping with artificial sweetness. “Faith, honey, don’t be silly. It’s freezing out here. We drove three hours. We brought a ham.”

On the screen, I watched the locksmith kneel by my door with a power drill.

That was the line. I called the sheriff’s non-emergency number.

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