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

that documented over eighty thousand dollars in unreturned loans. We filed a lien on the house. The lien meant I could legally force a sale—not to punish them, but to recover what was mine. The distinction between punishment and recovery mattered to me, even if it wouldn’t matter to them. They’d see it as cruelty. I saw it as arithmetic.

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