“All You Do Is Take,” My Father Said—So I Stopped Paying

up, I was the middle child in a family that operated on a two-tier system. My older brother, Adam, was the golden boy—varsity football, effortless charisma, the kind of kid who walked into a room and rearranged the gravity so everything orbited him. My younger sister, Mia, was the princess from the moment she was born, the baby of the family, protected continue reading …