My Family Planned To Move In Until I Asked For Eight Hundred Sixty Thousand

and said a city that far away would be expensive even with a scholarship. Natalie looked at it with something between boredom and resentment and said Chicago was gray and boring.

A week before I was supposed to leave, my father called me to sit down at the kitchen table. There were bank statements in front of him. He had made a bad investment. The mortgage continue reading …