On My 18th Birthday, My Parents Told Me My Education Fund Was Gone — I Didn’t Cry, I Took Notes

across the table.

I looked at the number at the bottom of the page.

Trust Fund Balance: $8,472.

Out of what should have been approximately $142,000 based on an initial $50,000 investment growing over eighteen years, they’d left me less than nine thousand dollars.

They’d burned through ninety-four percent of my inheritance to fund my sisters’ Instagram-worthy continue reading …