The answer came the next morning. And it was worse than I expected. I had spent nearly five hours at my parents’ dining-room table sorting every statement, receipt, transfer confirmation, and handwritten note into separate piles. Dad sat across from me with his reading glasses low on his nose. Mom made coffee neither of us really drank. At first, the numbers seemed ordinary. Electricity. Water. Groceries. Insurance. Repairs. Then Dad stopped. “Wait.” He pulled one receipt closer. “What?” “This roof payment.” I looked at it. Eight thousand four hundred dollars.…
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