They Called Me a Freeloader—After I Paid Their $6,000 Bills Every Month

had not arrived at six thousand dollars a month by accident either. Both were the product of a particular kind of discipline—the kind that develops in children who grow up understanding, earlier than they should, that love in their family is transactional and that the safest position is the one where you are too useful to discard.

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