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

worked part-time at a real estate office, bringing in maybe another $40,000. On paper, that’s solid upper-middle-class income. In reality, they spent money like they were auditioning for a reality show about people with more credit than sense.

I have two older sisters: Victoria, now twenty-six, and Ashley, twenty-four. From the time I could form coherent continue reading …