than a hundred thousand dollars. And yesterday, for her seventieth birthday, you handed her twenty dollars and joked that she didn’t need much?”
“Amanda, this isn’t about twenty dollars.”
“You’re right. It isn’t.”
Mom stood.
“Enough.”
“No, Mom.”
I turned toward her.
“How many times have you told me something was too expensive?”
“I never said I couldn’t afford anything.”
“You said it wasn’t worth spending the money.”
“Sometimes it wasn’t.”
“Your old car was falling apart before you finally replaced it.”
“It still ran.”
“You canceled the trip with
