My Daughter-in-Law Told Me to Stay Away Until She Suddenly Needed $4,200

and, above all, my endless well of patience. And the strange, bitter truth I kept bumping up against was this. The more I gave, the more Clara treated me like the inconvenience. As though generosity were a kind of weakness she had every right to exploit, and my kindness a resource to be strip mined until nothing was left.

Then came the text.

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