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

should be measured at all.

There were notes in the rightmost column. I had forgotten about the notes.

Holiday, December 2019: a laptop Tara needed, called a gift because that felt cleaner than what it was. Car issue, March 2020. Deposit help, August 2020. Birthday, June 2021: a hundred dollars, apparently deemed worth documenting.

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