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

does. It takes care of each other. It doesn’t keep score.”

“Someone has to.”

Uncle Gary shifted on the loveseat. Cousin Michelle had set her phone fully face down. The room was attentive in the way rooms get when people sense that the thing they came to prevent might be happening anyway.

My mother looked at me. Then she said the thing she had apparently continue reading …