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

day, my mother called. I was washing the breakfast dishes when the phone lit up on the counter. I let it go to voicemail. Her message played on speaker while I worked. A sigh first, deliberate, the kind that requires breath control. Then her voice, lower than usual, pitched to sound tired rather than angry.

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