Fifty thousand dollars.

He slid it across the desk like I was a problem he was buying his way out of, and he told me to take it and go to a clinic he named in another state and make the problem go away.

I walked out, my daughter wrote.

I stood up and I left the money on his desk and I walked out of that office and I never went back, and I never took a single dollar from him.

I want you to know that, Mom.