They Uninvited Me For Christmas—So I Pulled The Funding

“The Real Ones.”

My number wasn’t listed in the members anymore.

Just like that.

I backed out and clicked on another thread, the one from the year before, hoping to scroll through old messages.

It was gone.

Not deleted—archived, or moved somewhere I couldn’t reach.

They’d removed me carefully, cleanly, like dusting off an old picture frame before slipping continue reading …