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

in bad ones. Gloria worked part-time as a receptionist at a dental office and full-time as the narrator of the Torres family mythology, in which she and Martin were hardworking, self-sufficient Americans who had built everything themselves and owed nothing to anyone.

The mythology required a villain, and the villain was anyone who disrupted the story.continue reading …