it?
Almost nothing.
“I don’t understand.”
Mom sighed.
“Melissa needed help sooner than you did. You didn’t. But that doesn’t mean one daughter should eventually receive more than the other.”
Melissa slowly sat beside the window.
Mom continued.
“Some of these began as loans. Melissa always told me she would pay me back once they were doing better.”
“But you never made her.”
“No.”
“Why?”
Mom looked genuinely confused by my question.
“Because eventually I didn’t need her to.”
“That’s not the point.”
“It is to me.”
She closed the
