My Parents Planned to Take My $980,000 Texas House So I Sent Them to Italy and Sold It While They Were Gone

and planted it in a clay container with my own hands. The dirt got under my nails. The afternoon sun warmed the back of my neck. A delivery truck beeped somewhere below, and traffic moved along the street like a river I no longer had to cross for anyone else.

That first bloom was not much. Small. Uneven. A little stubborn. But it opened anyway.

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