My Mother Threw My Toddler’s Soup Down the Drain and Told Me to Get Out — She’d Forgotten Whose Name Was on the Deed
But it will be clean, and it will be unassailable, and no one will ever be able to say you did anything but follow the law.” And I nodded, because clean and unassailable was exactly what I wanted.
I was not interested in a shortcut.
I was interested in a truth that could not be argued with.
I have thought about why that mattered so much to me, why I was so insistent, from the very first meeting with Adrian, on doing everything correctly, slowly, unassailably, when I could have, as the legal owner, simply changed the locks the moment my parents left the apartment empty and forced them to sue me instead.
It would have been faster.
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