My Parents Chose a Birthday Dinner Over My Family’s Funeral—Then They Asked for Thirty Percent of the $18.7 Million Settlement
I stood beside the steps.
“How much?”
“Eighty-four thousand dollars.”
She said it with the emphasis she might have used for an inconvenience at a shop.
“Just a loan,” she added.
“To keep the venue.”
I looked at her.
There had been the five-thousand-dollar deposit.
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