“That’s what you said to me, Karla.

‘The rest of us actually work.'” “I was angry!” she cried.

“No,” I said.

“You weren’t angry.

You were comfortable.

You were comfortable letting me pay your bills while you called me a parasite, and it worked for four years, and now it doesn’t, and that isn’t cruelty on my part.

It’s just the end of a subsidy you were never entitled to.”

Her boyfriend, Daniel, who had believed for four years that Karla was independently paying her own mortgage, eventually discovered the truth when he asked why her credit was suddenly plummeting.