Stephanie Spent Nineteen Thousand Dollars on a Wedding and Changed Her Will

his eyes remained on his watch as he adjusted the strap once more. “We had some difficult years, but we always managed to pull through.”

I did not answer him. I thought of the nineteen thousand dollars I had handed over to him just weeks ago, the money that had emptied my savings account.

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