My Parents Told Me to Give My $30,000 College Fund to My Sister — or Drop Out and Stay Home to Clean

it wasn’t logic — it was theology. Inside our walls, it had been repeated long enough and consistently enough that it had achieved the status of fact, and I had been young enough, and surrounded enough by people who believed it, that for a long time I believed it too.

The belief takes root when you’re small and it grows with you, and by the time you’re continue reading …