My Parents Invited 20 Guests To My Lake House Until I Refused To Fill The Fridge

I worked double shifts at a hospital where people fought for one more breath, and I came home to a house I had paid for with those shifts, and it was mine in every way that mattered: legally, practically, and now finally in the quiet, complete way of something no longer being negotiated.

The dock held still beneath my feet.

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