I Bought My Parents A $650000 Ocean Cottage Until My Mother Called Me Sobbing

My mother cried quietly. My father stared at the floor.

And I understood it better than either of them, I think. That is the exact cowardice that keeps people going. Once you have gone too far, stopping starts to feel like self-indictment. So you keep going, purely to avoid having to name what you have already become.

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