My Mother Said I Only Care About Myself Until I Canceled Everything I Was Paying

Took off my coat. Put the groceries away in the order they came out of the bag. Eggs on the second shelf. Milk beside them. The good cheese, the kind I had bought for myself. Nobody else.

I did not call Tara back. I made dinner. I went to bed before ten. I slept without waking once, which hadn’t happened in longer than I could remember.

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